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Aaron Bunch

Police fight to stay silent at NT inquest

A Northern Territory policeman acquitted of an Indigenous teenager's shooting murder should be allowed to refuse to give evidence at his inquest, a court has been told.

Constable Zachary Rolfe shot Kumanjayi Walker, 19, three times during a botched arrest in Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs, on November 9, 2019.

A long-running coronial inquiry into the Warlpiri man's death was suspended on Wednesday so lawyers could appear at a Supreme Court judicial review.

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