In this, you will find a very good back ground picture of this matter, written by a Journalist
who was there during the whole of the Trial.
Take the time to read it......especially you, cods, and get enlightened with the facts.
Link.Excerpts:
Quote: MUCH has been said about Gerard Baden-Clay this week and much of it has been deserved.
But one thing must be made clear: Baden-Clay has never changed his story. He has barely moved an inch.
During the trial, everyone heard him tell the same version of Allison's "disappearance" no less than three times.
He told it to the cops first on the scene at their Brookfield house, he told it during a second chat to cops and he told it again in the witness box in court.
I know this because I covered the whole trial and I heard him refer repeatedly to his "poo-shower-shave" routine in the course of his account.
Quote: Don't get me wrong, Baden-Clay is a liar who killed his wife and left three little girls enormously traumatised and essentially parentless.
But I'm getting tired of reading his murder charge was downgraded to manslaughter because he changed his story.
It is simply untrue.
Quote: During the trial last year, before the jury went out to consider its verdict, Baden-Clay's lawyers made a submission there was no case to answer on the murder charge.
In making that submission, they conceded there was enough evidence for a manslaughter conviction but there was no proof he intended to kill Allison.
To convict a person of murder, the jury must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt Baden-Clay intended to kill, rather unintentionally causing a death.
The trial justice disagreed with the submission and the decision went to the jury, which came back with a guilty verdict for murder.
Quote: During the appeal hearing in August, his lawyers again argued the Crown could only prove a case for manslaughter, not murder.
There was no evidence proving intent, such as injuries to the body or cause of death, and the Crown's suggested motives for murder - such as financial troubles and an extra-marital affair - were speculative when there was no history of violence between the couple, the defence said.
When lawyers make these arguments, they put forward other possible scenarios.
The Crown does the same thing to sell their version of events to a jury, especially when presenting a circumstantial case.
Baden-Clay's defence team told the appeal court the evidence could point to an "unintentional" killing, that an altercation had occurred - she fell and died.
The rest is just as informative, but I'm running out of space.
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