Thread: Mistaken for game hunting accidents and human factors report

How many of you have searched for an item in your workshop or some other place and not been able to find it. Then go back later and it was sitting in plain sight all the time. The eyes saw it but the brain did not process the information.
Your brains are a very complicated organ and nobody fully understands how it works.
I believe the hunter truly believes he saw a deer prior to pulling the trigger.
How do we prevent it happening again?
I dont know the answer

Originally Posted by BobGibson

How many of you have searched for an item in your workshop or some other place and not been able to find it. Then go back later and it was sitting in plain sight all the time. The eyes saw it but the brain did not process the information.
Your brains are a very complicated organ and nobody fully understands how it works.
I believe the hunter truly believes he saw a deer prior to pulling the trigger.
How do we prevent it happening again?
I dont know the answer

Happens to me all the time. But I have seen the little green men that do it😆

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Hi, unfortunately there is not a written judgment for the Invercargill discharge without conviction but I have requested the judge's sentencing notes.
There's some discussion about whether the police might appeal the decision but as I understand it, appeals can only be on questions of law not questions of fact (what happened).
The reason for this is because the appeal court is not in a position to listen to the evidence, assess the credibility of the witnesses etc.
And in this country, along with many others based on hundreds of years of English law, the rule against double jeopardy remains. In other words, you can't be tried for the same thing twice.
P.S. I'm not a practicing lawyer so take my comments with a grain of salt.