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Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
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Art shows we are one but we are many The Emerald and district community, with the help of notable Yarra Ranges artist Sioux Dollman, recently came together for a community mosaic project that will soon be on show at Emerald Community House. Read more on Page 6
Judged ‘unfair’ By Cam Lucadou-Wells An Emerald man’s conviction for assaulting police and resisting arrest at his home has been overturned in the County Court of Victoria.
The accused man suffered ongoing damage from a serious acquired brain injury in 2008. The frontal lobe injury caused him to be disinhibited to the point that he couldn’t filter thoughts, emotions and reactions.
On 7 May 2019, police arrived at his gate with an arrest warrant due to persistent breaches of an intervention order protecting the man’s solicitor. After unsuccessful attempts to persuade him to go to the police station, the officers
were spat upon and “subject to extreme insult and abuse”. Police deployed OC spray, and validly forced their way into the man’s home to execute the arrest, the court found. Continued on Page 3
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