Overview
- Victoria’s Court of Appeal confirmed Patterson’s appeal has been filed but said it has not yet been accepted for hearing.
- The first ground alleges a fundamental irregularity in jury sequestration after jurors stayed at the same small-town hotel as police, prosecutors and media during deliberations.
- Appeal papers note hotel CCTV from the sequestration period was accidentally erased, while Victoria Police and the Office of Public Prosecutions deny any inappropriate conduct.
- The filing challenges evidentiary rulings over cell-tower reports, iNaturalist death cap sightings and Facebook material, and says some defence content about mushroom foraging should have been admitted.
- Patterson also claims oppressive cross-examination and a late shift in the Crown’s approach to motive, as the DPP separately appeals her sentence as manifestly inadequate.