Jurors who sat in the Zachary Rolfe murder trial might now feel cheated – that’s understandable

‘Jurors are only to consider what is served up in the courtroom … To that extent, a jury exists in an artificial environment where selected facts are presented for determination.’ Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Jurors who sat on the Zachary Rolfe murder trial in the supreme court of the Northern Territory might be feeling cheated.

A week after the not-guilty verdict came down, the court lifted more than two dozen suppression orders that had kept from the jury information about the alleged previous conduct of the accused.