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The decide in former rugby league star Jarryd Hayne’s third rape trial has repeated directions to jurors to place stereotypes out of their minds as they proceed deliberating.
Choose Graham Turnbull advised the six women and men on the jury to persevere on Monday after they returned a be aware saying that they had been unable to achieve a unanimous verdict.
The jury has been deliberating for greater than 20 hours and retired greater than per week in the past.
“In case you are having hassle being unanimous it is best to tell us,” the decide advised the jury on Tuesday.
The jury had been “diligently” performing its duties for a number of days, he stated, as he emphasised directions to place any stereotypes regarding any figures within the trial out of their minds.
“They’re instructions I’ve already given you,” he stated.
“You will have been the one ones who’ve heard and seen all of the proof, nobody else has,” he stated.
The decide reminded jurors that they wanted to be happy past an affordable doubt, and the accessible verdicts had been responsible or not responsible, somewhat than responsible or harmless.
Hayne, 35, confronted two counts of sexual activity with out consent stemming from a go to to a girl’s Newcastle residence after a buddy’s bucks celebration on NRL grand ultimate evening in 2018.
– AAP
