It was only good luck that saved a man whose jaw was "broken into small pieces" by a bullet when he was shot in the face in Canberra's north, a jury has been told.
Crown prosecutor Trent Hickey said that in the ACT Supreme Court on Monday afternoon, when he gave his closing address to the jury in the trial of Sugimatatihuna Bernard Gabriel Mena, 24.
Mena has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, an alternative allegation of intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm, and unlawfully discharging a firearm in an act endangering life.
