Erin Patterson appeal live: mushroom murderer challenges convictions over fatal beef wellington lunch
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Victorian court of appeal to consider whether triple murder and attempted murder guilty verdicts should be quashed
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Limited accomodation during sequestering ‘issues of convenience’, Patterson’s barrister says
Kidd 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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