R v Duffy - [1979] 2 NZLR 432

Criminal law — Evidence — Admissibility — Silence as an admission — During police interrogations, and in the presence of the accused, a co-offender identified the accused as the person to whom he had sold heroin — The accused said nothing while listening to this conversation between the co-offender and the police officer — Whether his mere silence was capable of giving rise to an inference that he accepted the truth of the accusation.