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After three days, the underlying sentiments and beliefs of the DPP, Shane Drumgold SC, are becoming clearer, writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY

The DPP's repeated view over two days was that the jury would have convicted but for one hold out. That is speculation dressed up as authoritative: it is not an evidence-based assertion, writes HUGH SELBY.

Sometimes DPP Shane Drumgold looked rather more stressed than on Monday. At other times – mostly in the afternoon – he looked nicely in control, except when the commissioner dumped, writes HUGH SELBY.

"ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold was the first witness to the Sofronoff Board of Inquiry. He chose to wear quiet colours, a choice that matched the careful tone of his answers," writes HUGH SELBY.

As the National Anti-Corruption Commission muscles up, HUGH SELBY remembers the largely forgotten Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, which after 17 silent years is going down fighting…

Legal correspondent HUGH SELBY will be commenting on the progress of the highly anticipated Sofronoff Inquiry. Here he reviews the first glimpse of the commission in action as the inquiry opened on Monday, then paused publicly until May 1.

"The police told the DPP that there was insufficient evidence. He didn’t agree. Then he complained loudly about the police when he didn’t get the conviction," legal columnist HUGH SELBY previews the Sofronoff Inquiry.