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<\/a><\/p>\nSmith is accused of unlawfully supplying Sydney Roosters lock Radley with cocaine at Currimundi, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, on June 7. <\/p>\n
Text messages allegedly exchanged between Smith and his former teammate Radley were uncovered in a police investigation.<\/p>\n
Radley has not been charged with any offence.<\/p>\n
He has ruled himself out of playing for England in the upcoming Rugby League Ashes series following the scandal. <\/p>\n
Brandon Smith of the Rabbitohs.\u00a0Photo by Chris Hyde\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Radley was set to run out against the Kangaroos for the three-Test series starting on October 25 at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Roosters also hit Radley with a hefty 10-match ban without pay, and he was also made to give a $30,000 donation to St Vincent’s Hospital for charity research.<\/p>\n
Smith remains banned from any contact with Radley as he fights to clear his name.<\/p>\n
“We are awaiting the brief of evidence that the Queensland Police rely on to establish the charges,” leading Sydney lawyer Paul McGirr told AAP on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“Once we have that material, we will read it and take it from there.”<\/p>\n
The court ordered the brief of evidence to be delivered to the defence by November 13.<\/p>\n
Smith has been charged jointly on the cocaine supply count with Joshua Geoffrey Peter Bainbridge, 34, and the court ordered no contact between the pair.<\/p>\n
The NRL star also faces a charge of disclosing inside knowledge of the Souths’ starting line-up for his return from injury on July 2.<\/p>\n
Smith’s inside knowledge about being moved to the run-on side for the Rabbitohs’ clash against Manly was allegedly shared with Bainbridge, who then placed a bet on the game as a result.<\/p>\n
The case was adjourned until December 4 for mention, with his appearance excused.<\/p>\n
The charges stem from a police investigation following the seizure of Smith’s phone at Gold Coast Airport.<\/p>\n
The South Sydney hooker was questioned by police when he arrived in Queensland ahead of his club’s August 10 clash with Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
He was released without charge and ran out against the Titans.<\/p>\n
The charges against Smith were brought by Taskforce Maxima, which targets criminal gang activity across Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Smith is still waiting to see police evidence as he fights allegations of supplying cocaine to fellow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-199960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}