The Snitch: Jarryd Hayne won’t be watching his 49ers in the Super Bowl

What’s Jarryd Hayne doing on Super Bowl day? Which lawyer was a rollover? Why is the An0m case waiting on South Australia? The Snitch is here.

He once played for one of the teams contesting this year’s Super Bowl, but Jarryd Hayne won’t be watching it.

That’s because prison authorities won’t let him.

Hayne, who made the San Francisco 49ers squad in 2015, will have to be content with watching a replay after business hours – but only if a second showing of his old team going up against the Kansas City Chiefs is broadcast on free-to-air TV.

While the Super Bowl is played on a Sunday in the US, the timezone works out that the game will run from mid-morning to the middle of the day on Monday over here.

And Hayne will be working a jail job instead.

The former Parramatta Eels NRL star is in a Sydney jail after being convicted of raping a woman in 2019, and prison authorities won’t be giving him a leave pass from his duties to watch the game.

Jarryd Hayne will be unable to watch the Super Bowl featuring his old team, the 49ers. Picture: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

“On weekdays, inmates are required to participate in programs, training, education or work during the day,” a Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman said.

“Inmates can watch network television when in their cells during lock-in on TVs or inmate tablets.

“Inmates will be expected to attend regular activities on Monday.”

In 2014, Hayne shocked the rugby league world when he quit the NRL after winning the Dally M medal to pursue an NFL career in the US.

He had the nation behind him as he made the 49ers’ squad in 2015 and was offered a three-year contract.

He returned to the NRL in 2016, and it was revealed he was accused of raping a woman in the US who sued him civil. Hayne settled the case and police elected not to pursue a criminal case.

Last year, he was jailed for almost five years after being convicted of raping a woman on grand final night in 2018.

He is appealing.

KEEP ON ROLLING

The highs and lows of life in the criminal law fraternity were on full display recently.

A NSW lawyer found themself in huge trouble a few years ago when they got busted by the cops doing some illegal stuff in a case involving some very dangerous criminals.

Our lawyer became a star witness for the cops and gave explosive top-secret evidence under a pseudonym in what’s known as a “rollover” situation.

A few years have gone by and the lawyer has reinvented themself in a different employment situation.

And to the amusement of the few who know, the lawyer was involved in a recent case in which they made strong representations to the judge about why a rollover witness in their case was a liar and could not be trusted. Hypocrisy aside, the lawyer won their application.

The lawyer in question has never been charged.

AN0M too pleased

The fate of the alleged organised crime figures caught up in the AN0M phone sting is set to be dictated by the South Australian Court of Appeal.

The collection of alleged legitimate businessmen in NSW challenging the legality of admitting as evidence the millions of text messages sent on the phones – which were secretly being monitored by police – had their legal fight delayed on Friday so they can see the outcome of a similar battle in South Australia.

The South Australian Court of Appeal is set to play a huge role to those caught up in the AN0M phone sting.

Last year, the Supreme Court of South Australia ruled police had not been illegally intercepting the messages, but had been legally surveilling copies of the messages sent to a server in Sydney.

The decision was appealed to the southern state’s Court of Appeal, which has asked for further evidence on whether the police were surveilling or intercepting messages.

In the Sydney District Court on Friday, lawyer Kiki Kyriacou told a none-too-happy Judge Gina O’Rourke SC that there was no choice but to delay the hearings until there is an answer in South Australia.

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