A Jury in Downing Centre District Court found our 22 year old client ‘not guilty’ of all charges after a hard-fought two week trial involving extensive expert evidence.
Our client faced charges of Aggravated Dangerous Driving Occasioning Death, Dangerous Driving Occasioning Death, Negligent Driving Occasioning Death and Police Pursuit (‘Skye’s Law‘).
The charges arose from an incident on 19th February 2011 when our client and another young man were travelling on a motorcycle owned by our client at detected speeds of more than 120km/h in a 50km/h zone on River Road, Greenwich NSW.
They travelled past a stationary roadside RBT and police began a pursuit.
Their motorcycle lost control and crashed, tragically causing the young man’s death.
The prosecution alleged that our client was the rider and the deceased was the passenger.
They relied upon the police in-car footage, eye-witness testimony and expert pharmacological and accident reconstruction evidence.
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® engaged experts to contradict that evidence and succeeded in having parts of the prosecution material excluded.
The jury unanimously found our client not guilty of all charges.