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No, the hearing in February would have been legal argument about admissibility of evidence, called a voire dire. That would have been done without a jury with the judge along making rulings on legal arguments.
They should print that statement on a sticker and distribute it to the public
LOL might really be Cameron
Same . I think there can only be one more re-trial though. So it has to end eventually.
That empty feeling when there is no closure
Trial hears tapes of 'rattled' de Belin
Luke Costin
18 November 2020, 3:43 pm
NRL star Jack de Belin told family he was rattled by a teenager's rape accusation and denied the woman had ever said "no" or "stop", a jury has heard.
A series of taped phone calls were played to the Wollongong District Court on Wednesday made in the days after a sexual encounter between the woman, the St George footballer and a second man in December 2018.
"I'm rattled," he told his sister Erica.
"It's so f***ed what she's gone in there and said (to police)."
He said it was consensual sex but the woman became "weird" afterwards before returning to "normal".
"She has not at one point said 'no', 'no, stop'," he said.
"The only time was at the end of it she got a little bit weird and said 'you've got a girlfriend'."
De Belin, 29, and Shell Cove man Callan Sinclair, 23, have pleaded not guilty to five charges of aggravated sexual assault in the bedroom of a North Wollongong unit in December.
The jury also heard the tape of the men discussing the rape accusation over the phone and how the footballer's legal advice was to not speak to the police.
"I'd rather just tell the truth, would you?" de Belin says.
"I'm not lying, we are telling the truth. It was consensual sex, she never got raped."
The men acknowledged they shouldn't be speaking about the case, with one saying "it's not like we're trying to get a story straight".
Sinclair then clarified with de Belin if he recalled taking a shower before the woman took her top off.
"I got nude and you start having sex with her first and I came in," the younger man said.
"Yes," de Belin said.
One then said the "best-case scenario" was that the police "realise she's lying".
In another call, the Dragons footballer tells his cousin he was telling the truth and said the situation was "so bullshit".
The woman has told the jury the NRL star undressed her and forced himself on top of her. He then made way for Sinclair and moved his groin to the then-teenager's head.
The men allegedly alternated positions as the woman went "dead and numb inside and just let it happen", the trial has heard.
"I just had tears out of my eyes the whole time," she said.
A tape was also played on Wednesday of Sinclair's conversation with his mother in which he says the woman "came back out with us and everything" after the alleged assault.
"If you were raped by someone, you wouldn't go out with them again, would you?" he says.
"I just can't believe it, Mum."
He explains de Belin had been charged but police were yet to talk to him.
"We've got nothing to hide," he said.
The trial continues.
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/au....hears-tapes-rattled-belin-044313457--spt.html
They aren’t rocket scientists either, surely one or both would have slipped up.
