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Beale says it’s the jury who will resolve if Patterson is responsible or not responsible of the three homicide fees and one tried homicide cost.
“You try this by deciding what the information are on this case,” he says.
“You, alone, are judges of the information on this case.”
He says jurors should apply the regulation to the information to find out if Patterson is responsible or not responsible of the fees.
Jurors don’t want to just accept the arguments of the prosecution or defence.
“If you don’t agree with their view, simply put it apart,” he says.
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Jurors given 86-page doc
Beale has given the jurors an 86-page chronology of reveals and proof introduced within the trial.
He says it’s”not homework” however a doc the jury can dip into it throughout their deliberations.
“It’s most likely finest to go away it within the jury room to seek the advice of,” he says.
The doc incorporates proof that dates again to 2007.
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Up to date at 21.06 EDT
Jurors are ‘judges of the information’
Beale says his cost will embody three sections – the ideas of the regulation, points to think about and the process they need to comply with.
He says jurors are the “judges of the information.” Beale says this implies if he omits proof in his abstract it doesn’t imply it’s not vital.
The jurors can decide which arguments have benefit no matter if he mentions it, Beale says.
He reminds the 14-person jury that solely 12 will decide the verdicts in Patterson’s trial. A balloting off course of will decide which jurors deliberate.
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Up to date at 20.48 EDT
The jurors have entered the court docket room in Morwell.
Beale is delivering his directions to the jury, which is known as the decide’s cost.
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What the jury heard final time
Right here’s a recap of what the jury heard when the court docket final sat on Thursday:
Patterson’s defence lawyer, Colin Mandy SC, outlined the prosecution’s high 4 “convoluted” and “absurd” propositions. Mandy stated these have been Patterson committing homicide with out a motive, mendacity about most cancers to entice her lunch visitors over, anticipating her lunch visitors to take her medical points declare to their graves and pondering she may go off the deadly meal as a “unusual case of gastro”.
Patterson’s estranged husband, Simon, accusing her of utilizing a dehydrator to poison his dad and mom on 1 August 2023 – three days after the lunch – was a “turning level” for the accused, Mandy stated. He stated this was when his consumer started to panic and lie. Simon denied saying this to Patterson when he testified.
Mandy refuted the prosecution’s telephone argument. He stated Patterson would have both disposed of or reset her authentic cell – Telephone A – if she had deliberate the “chilly, calculated murders” claimed by the prosecution, however as an alternative she continued utilizing it after the lunch.
Mandy pointed to Patterson’s medical checks outcomes from two days after the lunch as proof she turned unwell from the meat wellington meal. He pointed to her low potassium, elevated hemoglobin stage and elevated fibrinogen, which he stated didn’t depend on self-reports.
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Up to date at 20.42 EDT
Welcome to day 36 of Erin Patterson’s triple homicide trial.
We’re anticipating the trial to renew from 10.30am.
Justice Christopher Beale will start instructing the jurors this morning earlier than they start their deliberations. The jury is not going to retire to think about its verdict till Wednesday on the earliest.
Patterson, 50, faces three fees of homicide and one cost of tried homicide referring to a beef wellington lunch she served at her home in Leongatha, in regional Victoria, on 29 July 2023.
She is accused of murdering her in-laws, 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 visitors with “murderous intent” however her attorneys say the poisoning was a tragic accident.
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