Overview

• Alexander Terracini and his defence team stepped down the day before the Downing Centre Local Court appearance citing an unspecified issue
• Legal Aid Commission appointed Sydney lawyer Ben Archbold to take over representation of Beau Lamarre-Condon
• Magistrate Christopher Halburd granted a six-week adjournment despite Crown prosecutor Brendan Donnelly’s objections
• Lamarre-Condon remains in custody without entering a plea 16 months after the alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
• Proceedings have been marked by forensic psychiatric assessments and scrutiny of police firearm access after the victims’ bodies were concealed in surfboard bags