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Lawyer for Peter Skeen, Indigenous man shot by Northern Territory police in Palmerston, seeking to get charges dropped

Lawyers for the man charged with assaulting the police officers who shot him six times in Palmerston, outside Darwin, earlier this year are seeking to have the charges against him withdrawn.

The defence team has also alleged an internal police investigation into the shooting may have been withheld, despite lawyers earlier being told no such investigation had been carried out.

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