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Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne’s third trial on rape fees will go forward, with him searching for to have his accuser give proof once more.
Throughout a quick point out on Monday in Sydney’s Downing Middle District Court docket, Choose Warwick Hunt confirmed the trial date of March 6 and famous that Hayne’s authorized group had put the Crown on discover for the complainant to be recalled.
Hayne was launched from jail in February final 12 months after the NSW Court docket of Prison Enchantment quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial.
He had served 9 months of a minimal of three years and eight months time period imposed after he was discovered responsible of two fees of sexual activity with out consent.
The previous Parramatta Eels participant confronted his first trial in Newcastle in 2020, however the jury couldn’t attain a verdict.
The Crown contended in each trials that Hayne forcibly carried out oral and digital sexual activity on a girl in her NSW Hunter bed room on the night time of the 2018 NRL grand ultimate.
Hayne has all the time maintained the encounter was consensual.
His barrister efficiently argued for his convictions to be overturned on two attraction grounds – that there was an error within the authorized instructions given to the jury and an error in a pre-trial ruling on proof.
The case was adjourned on Monday till pre-trial orders on February 6.
