Victoria's Top Prosecutor Faces Criticism Over Trucking Company Boss Case

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Victoria's top prosecutor receives a rebuke from a Supreme Court judge over the handling of a case involving a trucking company boss charged with the deaths of four police officers. Concerns are raised about tensions within the legal community. The Director of Public Prosecutions had made a complaint about the conduct of the overseeing judge, leading to his resignation. The trucking company boss was sentenced to community work instead of jail time, with the judge noting that the original charges could not have been sustained.

Victoria’s top prosecutor has been handed another carefully worded rebuke by a Supreme Court judge as experts express concern that worsening tensions among the state’s finest legal minds are becoming untenable.

The prosecution of a trucking company boss charged over the deaths of four police on the Eastern Freeway has been at the centre of a fracture in the legal community after Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd, KC, made an official complaint about the conduct of Justice Lex Lasry in overseeing the case, which in turn sparked his surprise resignation last month., last week avoided jail and was instead ordered to perform 200 hours of community work over his role in the crash tragedy. But Justice James Elliott noted in his sentencing remarks that the DPP could never have sustained the four counts of manslaughter with which Tuteru was originally charged. “On the facts as now presented to the court, those charges simply could not have been made ou

 

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