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Cheryl Goodenough

Qld commission fails in contempt bid

A judge has rejected a CCC bid to punish a man for contempt after he said he feared for his life. (AAP)

Queensland's corruption watchdog has lost a bid to have a man - who feared for his life after being shot in the back - punished for contempt for refusing to answer questions at a closed hearing.

Crime and Corruption Commission presiding officer Forbes Smith applied to a Queensland court for the man, who is not named in a published judgment, to be punished for contempt after he refused to testify about his involvement in "some suspicious behaviour".

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