Overview

• Defence lawyer Richard Edney confirmed the plan in a brief hearing but did not outline the grounds for the appeal.
• The defence has 28 days to lodge the paperwork before judges decide whether to grant leave to appeal.
• Patterson was sentenced in early September to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years.
• A jury found she poisoned three relatives after a July 2023 family lunch in Leongatha, and a fourth guest survived severe illness.
• Treating doctors identified amatoxin poisoning from the green death-cap mushroom, while Patterson maintains it was an accident involving dried mushrooms bought at an Asian shop.