Mushroom murderer's appeal challenges trial conduct on multiple grounds

In a Melbourne courtroom, three judges are weighing whether the trial that convicted Erin Patterson of poisoning three relatives with death cap mushrooms was itself corrupted by procedural failures — flawed closing arguments, an aggressive cross-examination, and a jury housed alongside prosecutors during deliberations. Patterson, who maintains the poisoning was accidental, now appeals from a maximum security cell where she spends twenty-two hours a day confined. The case asks a question older than any single verdict: whether justice, to be real, must also be visibly and procedurally clean.