Eva Blandis

And we also, again, can't.

report anything other than what's said in front of that jury.

Yeah, exactly.

And, like, we have to be fair.

We can't just, like you were saying, we can't pick and choose.

I can't decide, oh, that doesn't sound good.

That doesn't fit with, you know, the picture I have of this victim or the picture I have of this defendant.

You know, it's not about that.

We just have to report what is put in front of us.

So, yeah, it's...

it may seem quite jarring to the audience or confusing, but we really are quite limited in what we can do, but also have to be fair.

We can't pick and choose.

So in South Australia, every defendant is able to apply for severance.

So it's sort of just like a bail application in the way that you can make an application.

It's up to you.

It's then, of course, up to the court to grant that application or deny it.

These discussions would have been had in pre-trial hearings that I'm not privy to.

I'm not exactly sure what happened in this case, whether there were...

Whether there was an application or not, I'm not certain.

But ultimately, if there had been, it was the court's decision to have them tried together.