A NORTH-WEST Coast man who received a five-year jail sentence last year after being found guilty of persistent family violence has appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeal.
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Bradley Lawrence Mykael Gee, 30, of Burnie, was found guilty by a Supreme Court jury in Launceston of violence against his former 25-year-old partner.
The first directions hearing was held on Friday with the appeal listed for hearing on May 24.
Justice Robert Pearce sentenced him to five years' jail after finding facts in relation to the jury's verdict.
The jury was unable to agree on which of eight episodes of family violence it found proved.
One of the grounds of appeal was that the verdict of the jury was unreasonable having regard to the evidence.
The appeal claims that the learned trial judge erred by allowing the complainant to give evidence at a special hearing at a remote location rather than in the courtroom.
It claimed the judge erred by finding that Gee would not suffer any unfairness and that the ruling which allowed it was unreasonable and unjust.
The appeal claimed the judge erred by admitting into evidence phone calls from Gee to the complainant when he was in jail. Gee, through counsel Julia Ker, claimed that the phone call evidence risked unfair prejudice.
The appeal said the judge erred by not finding that late disclosure of the phone call evidence would not be unfair. The appeal also claimed the judge erred in his finding of fact on the jury's verdict.
"[He] erred in sentencing the appellant [Gee] on the basis that the offending comprised all eight specified occasions relied upon the State in circumstances where there was no agreement by a majority of the jury as to those occasions,' the appeal said.