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Date of conviction; retrial ordered in [2020] HCA 47 (reversing [2019] QCA 273); charged with murder (DV offence); pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter; Crown did not accept plea; only issue at trial concerned partial defence of provocation; found guilty of manslaughter by majority verdict.
Primary Judgment
[2021] QSC 250 (2021) 9 QR 124; (2021) 292 A Crim R 491
08 Oct 2021
Reasons for directions to jury; in circumstances where a jury of 12 have been deliberating for eight hours and cannot agree on murder, they may return a majority verdict (11 jurors) on manslaughter, based on the partial defence of provocation, without rendering a verdict on murder or deliberating for any further period: Davis J.
Primary Judgment
[2021] QSC 282
25 Oct 2021
Date of sentence; offender temporarily lost self-control and killed wife in circumstances involving extreme violence and murderous intent; Crown characterised case as in worst category and sought life imprisonment; offending was spontaneous and out-of-character and offender pleaded guilty and was truly remorseful; sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment with SVO declaration: Davis J.
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