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Aaron Bunch

Juror discharged in Rolfe murder trial

The trial for a Northern Territory policeman accused of murdering Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker during a failed outback arrest has lost a juror.

Constable Zachary Rolfe, 30, has pleaded not guilty to the 19-year-old's shooting murder in Yuendumu, 290km northwest of Alice Springs, on November 9, 2019.

After a lengthy delay behind closed doors on Tuesday, Justice John Burns told the Supreme Court in Darwin that one of the jury members had been discharged.

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