Two well-known hip hop producers have had their second attempt to quash their convictions for the rape of a woman in a Tauranga motel rejected today.
Mark Arona and Peter Chambers, both in their 40s, were jailed for eight-and-a-half years in January 2017 after being found guilty by a jury of sexual violation and rape.
Chambers was found guilty of being the principal offender in the rape and Arona as a party to it by encouraging the offence.
After their bid to appeal the convictions in the Court of Appeal last October failed, the pair took the case to the Supreme Court.
Chambers and Arona said they should have been allowed to present evidence at the trial about the complainant's previous sexual history.