Victorian court of appeal to consider whether triple murder and attempted murder guilty verdicts should be quashedErin Patterson argues mushroom murder convictions should be quashed due to ‘catastrophic’ failure of justiceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLimited accomodation during sequestering ‘issues of convenience’, Patterson’s barrister saysKidd says Patterson’s case must be considered in the context of other cases where jurors had unsupervised access to “outsiders”. He says in this case the jurors were under the supervision of the jury-keeper at all times.They are not, in our submission, a principled response.If there has been no breach, then where’s the fundamental irregularity?There’s no evidence that that’s occurred here.
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