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Monthly Archives: July 2020
The Honourable List – in Australia
Previously, we held up as examples some prosecutors and judges who had Honourably taken responsibility and apologised for mistakes and malpractice causing some innocents to suffer wrongful convictions. They were (almost) all in America; we couldn’t find any examples in … Continue reading
Posted in General articles
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The Honourable List – a start
Doing the honourable thing by accepting responsibility for mistakes within the criminal justice system stands out as a novelty, it sometimes seems to us. So we want to recognise some of those who have done the honourable thing, apologising for … Continue reading
Posted in General articles
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How to fix Australia’s biggest legal scandal
Andrew L. Urban. It could be the start of a black joke: ‘have you heard the one about the chief forensic pathologist of a modern Australian state who was not qualified to do his job, was discredited by the legal … Continue reading
Posted in General articles
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Was Joanne Lees’ hair tie a smoking gun?
Andrew L. Urban. In the wake of our July 21, 2020 story covering the CJZ produced Channel 7 documentary mini series, Murder in the Outback, in which Bradley Murdoch’s conviction for the murder of Peter Falconio was examined, several readers … Continue reading
Posted in Case 12 Bradley Murdoch
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Innocence Files reveals the really guilty
Andrew L. Urban. Justice at the hands of ‘The System’ is sometimes no justice at all, it seems, as the new 9-part series The Innocence Files (Netflix) reveals how police break the rules, forensic experts use junk science, prosecutors withhold … Continue reading
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Sue Neill-Fraser trial flashback – the defence closing submission
Marking 11 years since her arrest (August 20, 2009) and while awaiting the oft-delayed start of Sue Neill-Fraser’s further appeal against her conviction for the murder of Bob Chappell (now scheduled for November 2, 2020), we publish the transcript of … Continue reading
Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser
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Expert Witness 101 – inform, not advocate
Andrew L. Urban. Eve Ash, the Melbourne filmmaker whose documentary, Shadow of Doubt, opened a Pandora’s Box on the Sue Neill-Fraser (many say wrongful) murder conviction, has produced a 4-part eLearning course, Giving Expert Evidence, which has now (July 23, … Continue reading
Posted in General articles
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Victoria’s Court of Appeal – too many judgements overturned, bring on a CCRC
Andrew L. Urban. Over the past 14 years under Justice Chris Maxwell’s reign as its president, 18 of the judgements of Victoria’s Court of Appeal have been overturned by the High Court, while in the previous decade, 10 of its … Continue reading
Posted in CCRC, General articles
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Bradley Murdoch – how DNA may have misled the jury
Andrew L. Urban. When juries in a circumstantial case are told of DNA, they assume that it’s a solid piece of evidence, unquestionable. The prosecution relies on this assumption and tells its story as if every DNA sample was like … Continue reading
Posted in Case 12 Bradley Murdoch
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Robert Xie’s alibi – in bed with wife
He had an alibi. Why was he charged, tried and convicted? Robert Xie and his wife Kathy have always maintained he was in their bed beside her at the relevant time on the night of the Lin family murders, for … Continue reading
Posted in Case 11 Robert Xie
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