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Speaker 1: As we know, the prosecution has finished its case in

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court trial of croc wrangler Matt Right now,

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Speaker 1: as we know, mister Wright is accused of perverting the

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Speaker 1: course of justice in relation to his alleged actions after

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Speaker 1: the chopper crash that killed Chris Willow Wilson in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two and has pleaded not guilty to all of

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Speaker 1: those charges. Now joining us on the line to let

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Speaker 1: us know where things are at is Matt Cunningham, Sky

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Speaker 1: News Bureau chief for the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Mash morning Katie.

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Speaker 3: How are yeah? Pretty good?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 1: What where are we ash with the trial?

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Speaker 3: What was the go yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I guess we're in a little bit of

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Speaker 2: our hiatus certainly as far as what we can say

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Speaker 2: and report publicly in a trial, because we're in the

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Speaker 2: middle of legal argument at the moment. So on Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 2: the prosecution wrapped up its case, so it basically closed

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Speaker 2: the case when we had the end of the evidence

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Speaker 2: that had been present against Matt Wright, and so now

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Speaker 2: we're just having legal arm. Yesterday was legal argument for

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Speaker 2: the whole day and that we will continue this morning.

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Speaker 2: The jury is due back at two o'clock this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: So from two o'clock this afternoon we'll be back in

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Speaker 2: we'll be back in open court and back able to

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Speaker 2: report on what's going on here basically. And so yeah,

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Speaker 2: in terms.

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Speaker 1: Of I guess, can you give us a bit of

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Speaker 1: a recap from last week, like what we sort of

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Speaker 1: heard towards the end of last week, and then I

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Speaker 1: guess what we're expecting to happen from two pm today.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the final witnesses we heard from last week

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Speaker 2: were the two police officers. So one was Timothy Gardner,

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Speaker 2: who'd done the transcription of telephone intercepts and recordings from

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Speaker 2: listening devices that have been placed in that right home

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Speaker 2: on the Sunshine Coast, So we had basically and then

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Speaker 2: the last witness was Corey Borton, who led the investigation

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Speaker 2: into this whole issue. So we had basically a series

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Speaker 2: of telephone intercepts and listening device recordings played back to

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Speaker 2: the court, and they were conversations that Matt Right had

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Speaker 2: had with various people both at his home and over

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Speaker 2: the phone, mostly in the second half of twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two where he was captured discussing the crash where Chris

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Speaker 2: Wilson had been killed and Sebastian Robinson had been injured,

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Speaker 2: so that they were all played to the court which

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Speaker 2: took quite a while. But yeah, yeah, basically what happened

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Speaker 2: on Friday, And.

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Speaker 1: So Matt in terms of today like two pm resuming

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Speaker 1: two pm today, what sort of what are we expecting

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Speaker 1: or who are we expecting to maybe take the stand.

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Speaker 2: So we won't see anyone take the stand to finish,

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Speaker 2: and it appears from what we've heard in court, from

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Speaker 2: what we heard in court yesterday, that Matt Wright himself

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Speaker 2: won't be taking the stand. What we have heard or

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Speaker 2: what we do expect, is that the prosecution will begin

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Speaker 2: their closing arguments. So Jason Glacisc will will begin his

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Speaker 2: closing arguments that should begin this afternoon. That's expected to

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Speaker 2: take the best part of a day, and then David

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Speaker 2: Edwardson will the defense barristar will will then make the

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Speaker 2: closing arguments and he's the indication is that will take

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Speaker 2: about half a day. So if that was the case,

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Speaker 2: we'd expect those arguments to be wrapped up by close

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Speaker 2: of business tomorrow Wednesday. Then the judge will give his

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Speaker 2: directions to the jury. So at this stage, we're probably

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Speaker 2: on track for the jury to go out at some

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Speaker 2: stage on Thursday, and then it will just, do you know,

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Speaker 2: depend on how long their deliberations take as to you know,

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Speaker 2: whether we get a verdict this week or whether it

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Speaker 2: runs into early next week. So Matt is I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, is that kind of in terms of you know,

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Speaker 1: what we've seen so far and the witnesses taking the

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Speaker 1: stand that has that sort of happened a little bit

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Speaker 1: more quickly than what we were expecting or not.

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Speaker 2: Really, I think it's run pretty much on time. I

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Speaker 2: mean when did it started. I think the twenty seventh

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Speaker 2: of July, and the original expectation was that it would

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Speaker 2: run for four to five weeks, so I guess we're

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Speaker 2: right on the We're two days into the fifth week now,

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Speaker 2: so I think I think really it's sort of on

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Speaker 2: been a lot of time that was taken up early

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Speaker 2: and again in the last couple of days with legal

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Speaker 2: argument that's happened in the absence of the jury. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think probably we're about on track to hit right

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Speaker 2: on the five week mark if it wraps up this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so in terms of like, you know, the

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Speaker 1: legal argument that the jury doesn't here, do we like

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Speaker 1: the members of the public ever sort of end up

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Speaker 1: hearing any of that information or not.

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Speaker 2: Really, he can't be reported on until after the jury

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Speaker 2: at its verdict, so once that happens, we'll be I'll

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Speaker 2: be able to come on and tell you all about it.

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Speaker 3: Well that yeah, well mate, we've appreciated all the information

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Speaker 3: that you've given us over the over the last few weeks,

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Speaker 3: and no doubt we'll talk to you again later in

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Speaker 3: the week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time today.

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Speaker 3: As always, no worries.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks mate.