114.3
In forceAlternative verdicts
ScheduleThe Criminal Code
Volume 1s 1-5, sch (s 1.1-261.3)
Chapter 5The security of the Commonwealth
Part 5.3AState sponsors of terrorism
Division 114General provisions relating to offences
114.3 Alternative verdicts
(1)
This section applies if, in a prosecution for an offence (the prosecuted offence) against a subsection of a section of Division 111, 112 or 113, the trier of fact is not satisfied that the defendant is guilty of the offence, but is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of an offence (the alternative offence) against another subsection of that section.
(2)
The trier of fact may find the defendant not guilty of the prosecuted offence but guilty of the alternative offence, so long as the defendant has been accorded procedural fairness in relation to that finding of guilt.
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