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Article: Vic: Man jailed over alleged bashing wins new trial
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2002
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Vic: Man jailed over alleged bashing wins new trial
MELBOURNE, Dec 2 AAP - A man jailed for 16 years for stomping on
the head of a mentally
ill prisoner in a cell beneath the Melbourne Magistrates Court has
won a new trial because
of an error made by the trial judge.
The Victorian Court of Appeal ruled that the judge in the case
should have, as a matter
of law, told the jury the defendant may have lied, but the lies did
not necessarily point
to guilt.
The man, 29-year-old Ali Ali, was sentenced to 16 years with a
minimum of 13 years
for intentionally causing serious injury to Michael Tully, then 44,
on April 29, 1999.
Mr Tully, who suffered severe brain ...