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NT coroner could step aside over Rolfe

Constable Zach Rolfe's lawyer David Edwardson KC says the coroner may have to disqualify herself. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Lawyers for a Northern Territory policeman who shot dead an Indigenous teenager during an outback arrest say the coroner at his inquest may have to step down.

Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker died after Constable Zachary Rolfe shot him three times during an arrest attempt in Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs on November 9, 2019.

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