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Jury to enter court docket room at 2:15pm
The jury will enter the court docket room from 2.15pm.
Justice Christopher Beale will proceed delivering his cost to jurors.
We’ll convey you reside updates when the trial resumes.
We’re ready for the jury to enter the court docket room in Morwell.
Within the meantime, right here’s how the trial performed out final week throughout closing submissions:
Our justice and courts reporter, Nino Bucci, was in Morwell yesterday and filed this story on what Beale instructed the jury:
What the jury heard yesterday
Right here’s a recap of what the jury heard on Tuesday:
1. Justice Christopher Beale started delivering his directions, or cost, to the jury earlier than it retires to contemplate its verdict later this week. He stated the jurors had been the “judges of the details” within the case.
2. The jury ought to solid apart prejudices and sympathies whereas deliberating the decision, Beale stated. “The actual fact Patterson instructed lies should not trigger you to be prejudiced towards her,” he stated.
3. Beale stated Patterson’s trial had garnered “unprecedented media consideration” and a variety of public remark. “If any of that has reached your eyes or ears or does so within the coming days … you should be notably cautious to not let it affect you in any manner,” he stated.
4. If the jury accepts Patterson was of excellent character they’ll use it to evaluate her credibility, Beale stated.
5. Beale outlined alleged prior inconsistent statements by witnesses. He stated jurors might settle for the sooner assertion made by a witness or use the sooner assertion to evaluate the reliability of a witness.
Welcome to day 37
Welcome to day 37 of Erin Patterson’s triple homicide trial.
Justice Christopher Beale will proceed instructing the jurors this morning earlier than they start their deliberations later this week.
Patterson, 50, faces three costs of homicide and one cost of tried homicide regarding a beef wellington lunch she served at her home in Leongatha, in regional Victoria, on 29 July 2023.
She is accused of murdering her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and her estranged husband’s aunt, Heather Wilkinson. The tried homicide cost pertains to Heather’s husband, Ian.
She has pleaded not responsible to the fees.
The prosecution alleges Patterson intentionally poisoned her lunch company with “murderous intent”, however her attorneys say the poisoning was a tragic accident.