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P, A, I and B convicted of raping 16-year-old female complainant after joint trial before Fantin DCJ and a jury.
Appeal Determined (QCA)
[2020] QCA 228 (2020) 6 QR 333
23 Oct 2020
Appeals allowed, convictions quashed, retrial ordered; trial judge’s comments capable of influencing exercise of peremptory right of challenge and thus undermining confidence in integrity of jury selection process; reasonable suspicion that juror’s lack of impartiality (for which he was discharged) potentially coloured discussions of evidence and thus undermined perception of jury’s impartiality as a whole; proviso inapplicable: Sofronoff P, Morrison JA, Philippides JA.
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Appeal Determined (QCA)
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