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| Subject: OZschwitz court verdicts: More found innocent if no jury involved Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:05 pm | |
| The man accused of murdering his fiancee by throwing her off the balcony of their Hyde Park apartment may have improved his chances of being found innocent by being tried without a jury.
Simon Gittany, 40, successfully applied for a judge-alone trial for the alleged murder of Lisa Harnum.
His month-long trial concluded before Justice Lucy McCallum in the Supreme Court on November 15.
A higher proportion of trials heard by a Supreme Court judge alone result in an acquittal than those heard by a jury, figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show. Advertisement
Between 1993 and 2011, defendants were acquitted of all charges in 55.4 per cent of judge-alone trials compared with 29 per cent of jury trials.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/court-verdicts-more-found-innocent-if-no-jury-involved-20131122-2y17l.html#ixzz2lQ0irxd2
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