We need a new type of verdict 'not guilty but not innocent'. Give Eastman $20m when they convict the Mafia for the Winchester hit otherwise he gets nothing.

A monumental miscarriage of justice and an absolute shambolic and crimminal abuse of power!?

This is keystone cops justice and inquiry?

And all avoidable if the forever resisted deployment of new space age, unbeatable lie detection equiptment had been used pretrial to test the veracity of the witnesses, all of them, those acting for and on behalf of the crown and those for the defence.

If I were to venture an opinion, I'd suggest an inside job and all that that also implies, and would want a federal ICAC, with the power to both compell witnesses/investigators, as well as test their assumed integrity!

If we are left to this or that justice to alone decide the merit of the case, these sort of miscarriages will reoccur indefinately.

Personally, I think the money waste on this debacle would have paid for several dozen CFR's machines and and equal number of thermal imaging cameras(in combination, space age unbeatable lie detection) that between them would have sorted this man's alleged guilt or innocence before the circus, went to trial. I would certainly want a federal ICAC so equipped!
Alan B.

Taswegian made a worthwhile suggestion to help clarify Eastman's verdict position, but his proposal is too simplistic.

What exactly would be the legal status of an accused person who was found to be "not guilty but not innocent"?
There would be no definable outcome.

The purpose of a trial is to establish guilt or innocence. If neither of these can be established, then there is no justification for a trial in the first place.