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Australia's Country Care criminal-cartel trial shaken by the dismissal of three more jurors

By James Panichi ( May 25, 2021, 01:13 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s landmark Country Care criminal-cartel prosecution has been put at risk, with a judge today telling the jury in the nine-week trial that he had dismissed three jurors, including the forewoman, creating a “grave situation” of a jury of just 11 people. Speaking directly to the remaining jurors, Federal Court of Australia Judge Robert Bromwich announced that he had decided to dismiss the jurors in a decision that wasn’t one that “I would ever want or that the parties of this trial would ever want.”Australia’s landmark Country Care criminal-cartel prosecution has been put at risk, with a judge today telling the jury in the nine-week trial that he had dismissed three jurors, including the forewoman, creating a “grave situation” of a jury of just 11 people....

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