The Queensland Court of Appeal refused a renewed application for bail pending appeal from a murder conviction, holding that the applicant could not satisfy either limb of the bail pending appeal test: there were no strong grounds for concluding the appeal would be allowed, and given a life sentence for murder, the custodial part of the sentence would not be substantially served before the appeal was determined. The Court declined to determine whether changed circumstances had been shown, as the substantive bail criteria could not be met in any event.
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