Monthly Archives: August 2020

Justice delayed … and delayed …. by Covid19

Posted on August 31, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. One of the “much loved and respected” inmates of Hobart’s Risdon women’s prison, Sue Neill-Fraser, has had to keep deferring her hope of regaining her freedom after 11 years incarceration; she is collateral damage of the Covid19 … Continue reading →

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Australia needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission says leading forensic pathologist Prof Stephen Cordner

Posted on August 23, 2020 by andrew

Marking the 40th anniversary of the night Lindy Chamberlain’s baby Azaria was taken by a dingo from the family tent at Uluru (August 17, 1980) sparking Australia’s best known miscarriage of justice, leading forensic pathologist Professor Stephen Cordner is quoted … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser – a wrongful arrest and 11 years later Part 2: a remedy

Posted on August 22, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The police investigation that led to Neill-Fraser’s arrest was irredeemably flawed, as we reported in Part 1 and it led to a train wreck of a trial that mocks the integrity of the criminal justice system. There … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser – a wrongful arrest and 11 years later Part 1

Posted on August 20, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. August 2009 was unusually wet, windy and warm for Tasmania – and wrongful conviction was in the air. Sue Neill-Fraser’s arrest on Thursday, August 20, 2009 – exactly 11 years ago today – for the murder of … Continue reading →

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Kamala Harris ex-prosecutor – a friend of justice?

Posted on August 12, 2020 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Integrity goes to character. Does Kamala Harris pass the test? This is a key question now she is the Vice Presidential candidate on Joe Biden’s Presidential ticket, but in her previous life, she was San Francisco’s District … Continue reading →

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Sorry – for 27 years in jail

Posted on August 7, 2020 by andrew

A Chinese court has apologised to Yuhuan Zhang for his wrongful conviction, after he spent 27 years in jail. The news comes just days after our two-part series on US and Australian prosecutors and judges making similar apologies. We like … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser ‘much loved and respected’ by inmates

Posted on August 2, 2020 by andrew

Two former prison inmates attending the Hobart vigil held on Saturday August 1, 2020 to mark the 4,000 days Sue Neill-Fraser has spent in jail, were interviewed by the Hobart Mercury’s Sally Glaetzer and the story was headline news in … Continue reading →

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