Monthly Archives: March 2021

Red flag about the blue rag

A buzz of conversation swirled on our comments thread since the March 10, 2021 publication of our story, Sue Neill-Fraser – conviction rests on dark fantasy, raising a red flag about the blue rag from the crime scene on Four … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser – conviction rests on a dark fantasy

Andrew L. Urban. As the late author and thinker Christopher Hitchens famously noted, ‘What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.’ Not in the Tasmanian legal system, it can’t. Hence the tortuous, 11-year legal journey of Sue … Continue reading

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Kathleen Folbigg – science to the rescue … maybe

Andrew L. Urban Science – the word, that is – has been bandied about a lot lately, from climate change arguments to Covid restrictions and in the criminal justice system. Now the latter faces a major test: will our legal … Continue reading

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Vass testimony & the courtroom war over DNA

Andrew L. Urban. On Tuesday, DPP Daryl Coates SC, from whom the soured milk of human unkindness oozed like puss, was relentless in exploiting the vulnerability of Meaghan Vass and her distressing emotional unraveling to achieve his objective: damage or … Continue reading

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Meaghan Vass evidence ‘unreliable’, focus on DNA

Andrew L. Urban. Sue Neill-Fraser’s legal team conceded before lunch on Day 2 of the appeal against her murder convction, that Meaghan Vass, highly stressed and agitated from the beginning, was delivering testimony during cross examination that would not be … Continue reading

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Sue Neill-Fraser was not at crime scene

Andrew L. Urban When At 11.50 am on Monday March 1, 2021, at the Sue Neill-Fraser appeal in Hobart, Meaghan Vass replied ‘Yes’ to the first question put to her by Robert Richter QC, the pent up anticipation of a … Continue reading

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