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Last bite of the cherry in mushroom murder trial

IT’S the law that the defence gets the last say in a criminal trial, the last ‘bite of the cherry’ if you will, as Crown Prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers SC meant to say during her closing address on Tuesday this week. Oh, Dr Rogers wasn’t...

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Jury verdict as easy as A, B, C, D, E, F, G says Crown Prosecutor

THE prosecution wrapped up its case just before lunch on Day 33 of the marathon mushroom murder trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell on Tuesday this week. Crown Prosecutor Dr Nanette Rogers SC used the last moments of her closing submission to the...

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Erin’s recipe for control exercised with ‘devastating effect’

CROWN Prosecutor in the marathon ‘mushroom murder’ trial in the Supreme Court at Morwell, Dr Nanette Rogers SC, wasted no time getting down to business on Monday, June 16. “At the heart of this case,” said Dr Rogers, “are four calculated...

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Did Erin already know the kids hadn’t eaten poisoned mushrooms?

THE last thing Erin Patterson should have been worried about when she was told by a doctor that her kids might die from eating poisoned death cap mushrooms, was whether they’d be stressed by the news. That was the proposition put by Crown...

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Mushroom murder trial: ‘Are you making this up as you go along, Ms Patterson?’

ERIN Patterson, the Leongatha mother of two charged with the murders of three of her estranged husband’s relatives, and the attempted murder of another, was in the witness box for her sixth straight day on Tuesday, June 10. It was Day 29 of the...

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Why the Western Port Woodlands are on the map

ONE of the features of the draft Statement of Planning Policy (SPP) for the Bass Coast Shire issued by the Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny last week is the prominence given to the Western Port Woodlands. That’s down to the efforts of the ‘Save...

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