Erin Patterson argues mushroom murder convictions should be quashed due to ‘catastrophic’ failure of justice
by Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#77SCC)
Allowing jurors to stay in same hotel as police and prosecution denied Patterson a fair trial, lawyers tell Victorian court of appeal
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Lawyers for Erin Patterson have argued that allowing jurors to stay in the same hotel as police and the prosecution while they deliberated over their verdicts in the triple-murder trial represented a catastrophic" failure of the justice system.
But the prosecution say it was far from a catastrophe, and showed the system worked as it should.
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