The JL Boys are back with their annual holiday season helping of reviewing the year that was, deliberating what's been done and evaluating the events we experienced here in South Australia.

They've made their list, then checked it about a dozen times just to make sure they can actually tell the tales, celebrate the champions and ridicule the ridiculousness that affected us all this year.

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Sean and Daniel take a moment to exhale as a guilty verdict is returned and a family break their silence with courthouse steps comments and victim impact statements.

However, as an eleventh-hour appeal and suppressed civil lawsuit come to light, it is now apparent that a prison sentence and a deceased estate both hang in uncertainty.

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The JL boys discuss suppressed evidence about multiple secret online relationships with Chinese where the premise of pleasure would come before a promise of marriage.

Before a judge would rule of a deliberate act to push a wheelchair-bound wife into a pond with the specific intention to kill her - not the apparent accident the defense would claim.

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Sean and Daniel dissect the fallout of this mistrial, from an approximate $325,000 in taxpayer money wasted to an immeasurable emotional toll on victims and their families.

We also hear crucial evidence potentially providing the prosecution with a powerful motive and the bizarre connection between condoms, vibrators, lingerie and China.

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The JL boys examine the unprecedented scenario of what happens when the very person tasked with ensuring justice becomes the very reason a trial capitulates

From undeserved public dressing downs to an ironic example of pride coming before a fall we witness the mutual agreement for a mistrial from misspoken misunderstandings.

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Sean and Daniel step outside the courtroom and behind the scenes to discuss the details of moving an entire courtroom to a crime scene and in this case when they go awry.

From police shutting down an entire beach, keeping defendants and juries separated to the unexpected complications and security concerns arising when justice goes mobile.

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The JL boys hear the testimony from Helen’s son, Grant of how the care and access to a brilliant microbiologist with "genius-level intellect" was a father’s cruel act of control.

We also hear revelations of cruel intentions, a secret conversation recorded wearing “a wire”, the court attending the scene of the crime and a mishap no one saw coming.

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Sean and Daniel continue to delve into this disturbing case as defense opts for a judge-alone trial rather than face a jury, while also frantically searching for an expert witness.

And as the prosecution attempts to paint a picture of a calculated killing, the judge involved makes the unusual ruling to hear all evidence before determining admissibility.

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