Anne Studd QC, representing the police, told the appeal court Sir Robert had failed to understand "the bigger policing picture" and had failed to build in any operational discretion when officers genuinely believed they were in an emergency situation that required them to act at once.

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The squandered ensemble includes Ned Beatty, Michael McKean, Jeffrey Tambor, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Klein, Harvey Korman, Dylan Baker, Peter MacNicol, Anne DeSalvo, and the late Anita Morris.

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The prosecutor also told the jury that although she was inarticulate and an undeniably reluctant witness, Zoe's younger sister, Laura Anne, had been truthful in her account of how she was allegedly shown the badly burned body by Robert Bayne.

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