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Show me the evidence

Posted on March 27, 2025 by andrew

In a case orchestrated by NSW police and then Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi AM KC,  Robert Xie was convicted of murdering five members of his wife’s family, the Lins. Andrew L. Urban’s new book demolishes this wrongful conviction. 

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“I am innocent” – Robert Xie

Posted on March 26, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban unravels the Crown’s circular argument that Robert Xie must be guilty because the murders ‘must have been’ committed at a time the Crown claims, without evidence.  In fact, he had an alibi: he was in his bed … Continue reading →

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The low-down on the legal profession

Posted on March 22, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Sydney’s Macquarie Law School is attracting public criticism for compelling law students to include acknowledgment of country (a form of political speech) in work to which it has no relevance. It’s a change from the history of … Continue reading →

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Prosecution’s circular argument wins unconvincing murder conviction

Posted on March 21, 2025 by andrew

Fallacious prosecutorial circular reasoning and lack of compelling evidence results in life imprisonment for Cedric and Noelene Jordan, as contributor Benjamin Dean explains. 

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Pressing need for law reforms ignored – or resisted?

Posted on March 11, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban What reforms has the criminal justice system undertaken in the wake of the wrongful convictions decades ago of Lindy Chamberlain, Derek Bromley, Henry Keogh, Andrew Mallard, Gordon Wood and – we say, Sue Neill-Fraser in 2010, Robert Xie … Continue reading →

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Suspicion – fuelled by media – can lead to Wrongful Convictions

Posted on March 3, 2025 by andrew

Public suspicion can (mis)lead courts & juries to miscarriages of justice, as contributor PETER GILL finds.

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Self contradiction in Crown case against Robert Xie

Posted on March 2, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban’s forthcoming book, FRAMED, about the wrongful conviction of Robert Xie, shines a light on several serious flaws undermining the conviction. Here are a couple of examples that show questionable behaviour by police, prosecution, judge and jury. 

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COMING SOON: FRAMED – Urban’s new book on Robert Xie

Posted on March 1, 2025 by andrew

Subtitled “How the legal system framed Robert Xie for the Lin family murders”, Urban’s latest book tells the astonishing true story of how a weak circumstantial case plus a combination of incompetence and unethical behaviour throughout the legal system, from … Continue reading →

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Bungled: three of the murder cases failed by the legal system

Posted on February 23, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban With a combination of incompetence and unethical behaviour, the legal system has utterly failed to deliver justice and to correct its mistakes in these three examples of wrongful murder convictions, according to our investigations. 

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New Hampshire corruption drove the Fr. Gordon MacRae case

Posted on February 19, 2025 by andrew

This article was published at Fr. Gordon MacRae’s blog in 2023.  It sat there for over a year entirely unnoticed. Then on Wednesday February 12, 2024, its author, CLAIRE BEST emailed a link to it to the head of a … Continue reading →

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