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Decide outlines laptop professional’s proof
Beale tells the jury Fox-Henry testified that he extracted knowledge from a Cooler Grasp laptop seized from Patterson’s home.
He mentioned he used key phrases to look the information. These included “demise cap”, demise cap mushrooms”, “mushroom” and “poison.”
The court docket beforehand heard that digital data taken from a pc seized by police from Patterson’s home indicated that it had been used to go to webpages itemizing sightings of demise cap mushrooms.
Patterson mentioned it was “attainable” the visits to the iNaturalist have been carried out by her however that she couldn’t bear in mind it, Beale says.
She mentioned she needed to know if demise cap mushrooms grew in South Gippsland, the court docket hears.
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Up to date at 00.53 EDT
Justice Christopher Beale begins to stipulate the proof of digital forensics professional Shamen Fox-Henry, from Victoria police’s cybercrime unit.
He reminds the jury that Fox-Henry gave proof concerning the knowledge discovered on a number of units police seized from Patterson’s home per week after the meat wellington lunch.
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Jury arrives
The jury has entered the court docket room in Morwell.
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Up to date at 00.18 EDT
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 deliver you reside updates when the trial resumes.
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Up to date at 22.56 EDT
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:
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Our justice and courts reporter, Nino Bucci, was in Morwell yesterday and filed this story on what Beale instructed the jury:
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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 mentioned the jurors have been the “judges of the information” within the case.
2. The jury ought to solid apart prejudices and sympathies whereas deliberating the decision, Beale mentioned. “The actual fact Patterson instructed lies should not trigger you to be prejudiced in opposition to her,” he mentioned.
3. Beale mentioned Patterson’s trial had garnered “unprecedented media consideration” and lots of public remark. “If any of that has reached your eyes or ears or does so within the coming days … you have to be notably cautious to not let it affect you in any means,” he mentioned.
4. If the jury accepts Patterson was of excellent character they’ll use it to evaluate her credibility, Beale mentioned.
5. Beale outlined alleged prior inconsistent statements by witnesses. He mentioned jurors may settle for the sooner assertion made by a witness or use the sooner assertion to evaluate the reliability of a witness.
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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 fees 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.
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