January 10, 1989 - AFP Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester is shot twice in the head as he gets out of his car at his home in Deakin.
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August, 1989 - A coronial inquest hears evidence and in December an open finding is recorded.
December 25, 1992 - A month after the re-opening of the inquest, David Eastman is commited to stand trial for murder.
May 2, 1995 - Murder trial begins and Eastman pleads not guilty.
November 3, 1995 - Eastman is found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
June 25, 1997 - Eastman appeals his conviction and special leave to appeal to the High Court is granted.
May 25, 2000 - Appeal is dismissed.
June 9, 2000 - Eastman applies for a judicial inquiry, but his application is dismissed.
May 2001 - June 2004 - Eastman makes several unsuccessful applications for reviews and inquiries into his conviction and fitness to plead.
October 2004 - February 2005 - A hearing is held into Eastman's fitness to plead.
October 6, 2005 - Report into Eastman's fitness to plead finds "on the probabilities" he was fit to plead.
November 2005 - April 2008 - Eastman unsuccessfully appeals the 2005 finding.
October 2007 - Eastman appeals his original conviction but is dismissed by the Full Court of the Federal Court. Leave to appeal to the High Court is refused.
April 2011 - Eastman applies for an inquiry into his conviction.
September 3, 2012 - An inquiry into Eastman's conviction is ordered.
September 2012 - Inquiry begins before Acting Justice Kevin Duggan.
July 22, 2013 - Justice Duggan withdraws citing conflict of interest concerns.
November 11, 2013 - Hearings into Eastman's conviction begin before Acting Justice Brian Martin.
May 15, 2014 - Inquiry concludes.
May 29, 2014 - Acting Justice Martin's report is delivered to the Supreme Court of the ACT.
May 30, 2014 - Acting Justice Martin recommends Eastman's conviction for the murder of Colin Winchester be quashed.
