Monthly Archives: December 2018

Tunnel vision and bad ‘science’ – a deadly mix in the justice system

Posted on December 29, 2018 by andrew

A year before Julie Rea’s exoneration for the murder of her 10 year old son, the National Academy of Sciences released a report that called into doubt the reliability of bloodstain-pattern analysis – exactly what led to Rea’s conviction, coupled … Continue reading →

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Journalists, authors, filmmakers hunt the truth in Sue Neill-Fraser case

Posted on December 26, 2018 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Two new books and a 6-part documentary series on the Seven Network – all investigating the murder conviction of Sue Neill-Fraser – will become available before and after the February 5, 2019, Tasmanian Supreme Court hearing into … Continue reading →

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What percent innocent?

Posted on December 26, 2018 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. A former heavy duty senior detective friend of mine (now a security consultant with a caustic sense of humour) and I have a standing joke: when he mentions a convicted criminal he grins, saying to me, ‘He’s … Continue reading →

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Colin McLaren searches, finds, tells

Posted on December 24, 2018 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. ‘Failure to search is failure to find’ goes the investigator’s mantra, and boy, does Ex-Detective Sergeant/Task Force Team Leader and latterly author Colin McLaren prove that to be true with his exhaustive and explosive book, JFK: The … Continue reading →

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How do you solve a problem like Lawyer X?

Posted on December 12, 2018 by andrew

How does the State of Victoria mange a review of 380-odd criminal convictions in the wake of revelations about Lawyer X? As the law stands, the answer is ‘with enormous practical difficulty and delay’. Legal academic Dr Bob Moles and … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser – the ‘bias’ in my reporting

Posted on December 3, 2018 by andrew

By Andrew L. Urban. In the wake of the publication of my book, Murder by the Prosecution (Wilkinson Publishing, 2018), a few more people have muttered the word ‘bias’ in my direction, referring to the Sue Neill-Fraser case which makes … Continue reading →

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