Tas: Jury discharged after failing to decide on Green trial

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2007
Tas: Jury discharged after failing to decide on Green trial

HOBART, Dec 3 AAP - A judge has discharged a jury in the criminal trial of Tasmania's
former deputy premier Bryan Green after it failed to reach a verdict.

Green was accused of signing an illegal $2.6 million deal with private company, the
Tasmanian Compliance Corporation (TCC).

The deal gave the company a three-year monopoly to accredit the state's builders or
be compensated.

Today a Supreme Court jury of nine women and three men failed to decide on whether
Green was guilty of interfering with an executive officer of the Crown, a charge which
carries up to 21 years' jail.

The jury had spent nine-and-a-half hours deliberating.

Green will now face a retrial.

Chief Justice Peter Underwood remanded Green to reappear in court on February 4 for
a further hearing.

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