A Supreme Court judge is alleged to have gifted a woman a phone, smartwatch and earphones which he then used to monitor her whereabouts as he spiralled into a jealous rage.

Tasmanian Justice Gregory Geason, 62, has pleaded not guilty to one count of emotional abuse or intimidation and one count of common assault.

He is accused of assaulting the woman on October 31 by grabbing her arms and squeezing and shaking her, striking her with his hand and emotionally abusing and intimidating her between April and November, including by tracking her movements.

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Crown prosecutor Neill Hutton told Hobart Magistrates Court that Geason used the devices he gifted her to constantly track her through her daily life.

In one instance, he "happened to come across" a family member of the woman in Canberra after allegedly tracking the earphones he had given her.

"The inference here is the accused was using headphones to find the victim," Hutton told the court on Monday.

After the woman went out for drinks with Geason's ex-wife, he was alleged to have constantly rung her, telling her his ex-wife was trying to turn her against him.

Geason allegedly became physical on October 31 when he discovered a text message from the complainant's friend on her phone and became enraged after attempting to look through her messages.

He allegedly grabbed her on her upper arms firmly and shook her, hit her hard in the chest, and pushed her where she hit her head, Hutton said.

After finding bruises on her body, the accused judge told the woman she "bruised too easily" and that he "had too much to drink".

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Geason subjected the woman to constant verbal abuse, screaming at her, calling her derogatory terms and disparaging her CV whenever he got angry, it was alleged.

The woman said Geason could be "charming and nice and then suddenly flip".

Geason's barrister Tom Percy KC argued there was no coercion or anything sinister in any of the circumstances, saying there was never any physical tracking device on the phone.

"Any suggestion that he tried to invade her privacy or exert some measure of control is simply misconceived," Percy said.

He described the October 31 confrontation "unfortunate" as both people had been drinking.

The accused will argue the complainant said she was someone who "bruised easily" and had been prescribed blood thinning drugs, and suffered medical conditions that may have contributed to the marks.

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Geason has been on leave from his court justice role since November and has given a written commitment to not seek or attempt to exercise the powers of a Supreme Court judge while criminal proceedings are ongoing.

He was admitted to practice in 1987 and worked as a crown prosecutor before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 2017.

The hearing, before Victorian Deputy Chief Magistrate Susan Wakeling, is slated to run for five days.

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The father of a girl allegedly killed by a religious group withholding her diabetes medication had previously wanted to "protect her" from the congregation's extreme beliefs, a judge has heard.

Eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs died at the family home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, on January 7, 2022, after her parents and 12 others allegedly withheld her diabetes insulin medication for six days.

Brendan Luke Stevens, the 62-year-old leader of the Christian group calling itself The Saints, is on trial for murder along with the girl's father, Jason Richard Struhs, 52, in the Brisbane Supreme Court.

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Elizabeth's sister, Jayde Struhs, gave evidence today in the judge-only trial's second week and told Justice Martin Burns The Saints' core belief was to reject all man-made medical treatment.

"That was the big one. God created us, He could heal us. You must be all-natural and pray to God," she said.

She said she never went to a doctor or dentist as a child but was vaccinated at her father's insistence.

Elizabeth's mother, Kerrie Elizabeth Struhs, 49, and the other 11 members of the congregation are charged with manslaughter.

Jayde, 26, said she left the group and moved out of home at age 16 after Kerrie Struhs and Stevens refused to accept she was homosexual.

She said her father contacted her in 2019 to say he was in a helicopter about to be taken to a hospital in Brisbane as Elizabeth was in a coma.

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Under questioning from crown prosecutor Caroline Marco, Struhs said she then learned Elizabeth had type-1 diabetes and her father intended to push back against Kerrie Struhs, who had brought the family into The Saints.

"Dad wasn't really a religious man. He didn't join in. He was not a fan of it," Struhs said.

She added her father was willing to give Elizabeth the constant glucose monitoring and multiple daily insulin shots she needed.

"He knew it would be tough. He took on the responsibility knowing he would get no help. He wanted to protect her. He wanted a lot of things to change when he got home as he nearly lost her," Struhs said.

She told the court the group met in private homes to listen to Stevens read scripture from the King James Bible and an important part of membership was "receiving the Holy Spirit" via baptism and speaking in tongues.

Marco has previously told Justice Martin that Jason Struhs later relented to pressure from The Saints and was baptised in August 2021 before deciding to cease Elizabeth's insulin doses in January 2022.

The other defendants are Loretta Mary Stevens, 67, Andrea Louise Stevens, 34, Acacia Naree Stevens, 31, Camellia Claire Stevens, 28, Therese Maria Stevens, 37 Keita Courtney Martin, 22, Lachlan Stuart Schoenfisch, 34, Samantha Emily Crouch, 26, Zachary Alan Struhs, 21, Sebastian James Stevens, 23, and Alexander Francis Stevens, 26.

All 14 defendants are self-represented and have refused to enter pleas.

Under cross-examination from her brother, Zachary Struhs, Jayde said it was possible for members of the group to disagree with the leader, Brendan Stevens, but she did not feel safe to do so.

"I never felt I had a voice," she said.

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A man has been airlifted to hospital after suffering a sea snake bite while on a fishing vessel about 360km south-west of Darwin.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) informed the crew member had been bitten by a sea snake and needed urgent care about 9:15am.

The man was aboard a fishing vessel located on the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, off the coast of the Northern Territory.

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The LifeFlight rescue helicopter was deployed and winched the man from the vessel about 11.45am.

The crew member was taken to Truscott, where they will be met by a Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft for onward transfer to Broome for treatment.

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More details are emerging of Thomas Crooks, 20, the man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump.

Crooks lived in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, about an hour's drive south of the Trump rally where law enforcement officials say he fired at the former president.

Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022, according to a local media report and a video of the school's graduation ceremony.

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Jason Kohler, 21, who went to the same high school, told CNN that Crooks was bullied by other students and seemed to be a loner.

Crooks had "no facial expression" when he walked through the school hallways, Kohler said.

"He wasn't, like, with the clique, so he always had, I guess, a target on his back."

Other students mocked him for the way he dressed, such as in hunting outfits, Kohler said.

Another former student at the school, Sarah D'Angelo, remembered Crooks as "a quiet kid, not obviously political or violent in any way".

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She said the only time he spoke with her was when their class was waiting for their graduation ceremony to start.

A third classmate, who asked not to be named, said that Crooks was very smart, took honours classes, and was shy.

She said that he had a group of friends who were fairly conservative, some of whom would wear Trump hats.

"There was definitely chatter about him just looking a little different," the classmate said of Crooks.

"Almost a retro nerd vibe."

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Crooks tried out for the school's rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school, said.

In Bethel Park, authorities blocked off streets around his home as a search was launched.

When reached by CNN, Crooks' father, Matthew Crooks, said he was trying to figure out "what the hell is going on" but would "wait until I talk to law enforcement" before speaking about his son.

Records show he was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $US15 ($22) to a progressive political action committee on January 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn into office.

This year's presidential election would have been the first he was old enough to vote in.

The FBI has not yet identified the shooter's ideology, but they are combing through his social media feeds and weapons.

So far, they have not found any threatening writing or social media posts.

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They have received more than 2000 tips.

Crooks is so far believed to have acted alone and was not previously on FBI's radar.

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate says threatening online rhetoric has been "ticking up" since the attempted assassination.

He says people are going online to pose as the shooter, who was killed by the US Secret Service.

Speaking at a press conference earlier, FBI Deputy Commissioner of Operations Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens would not guarantee that the gunman acted alone.

"I think it's too early to say that. We have one shooter tentatively identified, but we're not stopping there," he told reporters.

"We are absolutely not taking for granted that this was a lone wolf attack and so we would be looking at additional information that could point us to anyone else that may have had a hand in this.

"We're following up on a lot of information. It will be some time until we can conclusively say or answer that question."

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Bivens said the agency's greatest priority was identifying the motive and whether other parties were involved in the attack.

"I think once the shooter is identified anyone that has specific information on that shooter, that would be very helpful also," he said.

The FBI said the investigation remains active and ongoing.