Police officer charged with murder of Kumanjayi Walker allowed to argue he was acting in ‘good faith’
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#5N9HQ)
A Northern Territory supreme court ruling will allow Zachary Rolfe to argue he is immune from criminal liability under a clause in NT law
A jury could potentially find that a Northern Territory police officer accused of murdering a young Indigenous man during an outback arrest is immune from criminal liability, judges have ruled.
Constable Zachary Rolfe, 29, shot Kumanjayi Walker, 19, in the remote community of Yuendumu in November 2019, according to assumed facts released by the NT supreme court.
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