A teenage boy who was facing eight counts of assault after allegedly throwing a cup of milk at youth justice officers in a "stand-off" in the Northern Territory's notorious Don Dale Youth Detention Centre has been found not guilty on most counts.
In his final ruling in the long-running legal battle, which has spanned years, NT judge Greg Macdonald also found the length of time that detainees were kept in their cells for was excessive.

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