Jarryd Hayne will find out if the NSW Supreme Court thinks he should be locked up before sentencing on two rape counts, after a lower court ruled he was too famous to be detained before then.
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The 35-year-old disgraced former NRL star was found guilty on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent earlier in April.
Hayne walked out of court escorted by sheriffs into a waiting Audi when he faced a bail review in the District Court two days later.
Crown prosecutors have launched another bid to have Hayne detained before sentencing, taking him to the NSW Supreme Court for a bail hearing before Justice Richard Button on Friday.
It comes after he faced a third trial and spent nine months in custody following an earlier guilty verdict that was overturned on appeal due to "profoundly wrong" legal directions given to the jury before it deliberated.
The jury in the first trial was discharged without reaching a verdict.
Hayne was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman with his hands and mouth after attending her home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.
She cannot be identified.
A taxi Hayne paid $550 to drive him to Sydney following a bucks weekend waited outside the suburban Newcastle home while he played the woman songs on a laptop and watched the end of the grand final as her mother sat in the living room.
Following the assault, the pair cleaned blood off of themselves in the woman's ensuite and Hayne continued to Sydney, the trial heard.
District Court Judge Graham Turnbull was reluctant to jail Hayne prior to a sentencing hearing in May.
"He's going to jail," Judge Turnbull said.
"My problem at the moment is he's not going in as a sentenced prisoner, he's going in as a remand prisoner."
He could be "vulnerable" around other prisoners awaiting their sentence, and would require protection "because he's Jarryd Hayne".
The bail review heard Hayne quickly became a target last time he was in custody, before he was moved to a more protected facility.
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