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No winners in de Belin situation – but even so, stand-down rule must stay – Sydney Morning Herald
The Dragons forward faces a third trial for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old woman. Regardless, the NRL’s controversial no-fault stand-down rule must stay.
Whether or not the Director of Public Prosecutions pursues a third trial, which is rare, remains to be seen. Every barrister, solicitor and legal expert you speak to seems to have a different position, a different theory.
It serves nobody to speculate on how it will play out from here, but theres no dispute the mere thought of the de Belin case extending into a third year again brings the NRLs no-fault stand-down rule into sharp focus.
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