‘Innocent’: Judge’s big call after Jarryd Hayne rape convictions overturned
One of the judges who presided over Jarryd Hayne ’s successful appeal against his rape convictions has concluded there is a “significant possibility” the NRL player is “innocent”.
He has continued to maintain his innocence and launched an appeal against the convictions, which was upheld in a 2-1 majority decision by the Court of Criminal Appeal this week. The Supreme Court Justice claimed Mr Hayne’s guilty verdicts were unreasonable because it was “not clear, to the requisite standard, that did not consent to the two sexual acts which occurred, or, if she did not, that knew that.”
“The jury were deprived of evidence which had significance for their assessment of the honesty of the complainant,” Justice Sweeney said. “I am of the view that in the circumstances of the history of this matter, to put the applicant on trial for a fourth time would not be in the interests of justice,” she said.
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