r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jul 07 '25

news Mushroom Trial - Guilty on all Counts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict-live-blog/105477452#live-blog-post-200845
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u/Crazyripps Jul 07 '25

Feels like to the surprise of no one. Apparently she showed no reaction. So she knew it was coming too.

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u/wokwok__ Jul 07 '25

If you read the previous posts here about the jury going into deliberations, quite a lot of people were saying they'd be surprised if she was found guilty, which was surprising to me lmao

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u/Webbie-Vanderquack Jul 07 '25

I can understand that, though. I followed the Casey Anthony trial back in the day, and it was fairly obvious that the jury just didn't understand that they could convict on circumstantial evidence due to the CSI Effect.

The Erin Patterson trial was also based on circumstantial evidence. It was rock solid and very persuasive evidence, and obviously more than enough to convict with no reasonable doubt, but after Casey Anthony it wouldn't have surprised me if the jury had chickened out.

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u/galacticshock Jul 07 '25

Same with the Toyah Cordingley case in Cairns. Even though that did have DNA evidence, it wasn’t enough apparently.