Jarryd Hayne will face a third trial after a successful
application to the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal.
The former NRL star was released on bail from Cooma Correctional
Centre last month after having his
previous convictions for sexual intercourse without consent
quashed.
The appeal was won because the presiding judge was found to
have misdirected the jury on the law, as well as the fact that
testimony that was determined to be inadmissible in the first trial
was used in the second.
Jury directions are instructions on the law that the presiding
judge gives to members of the jury when they are considering
whether to find a defendant guilty or not guilty of the charges
brought against them.
