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Red flag about the blue rag

Posted on March 12, 2021 by andrew

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

Posted on March 10, 2021 by andrew

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

Posted on March 9, 2021 by andrew

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

Posted on March 3, 2021 by andrew

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

Posted on March 2, 2021 by andrew

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

Posted on March 1, 2021 by andrew

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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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal check list

Posted on February 26, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. For the benefit of members of the public following the Sue Neill-Fraser appeal (against her 2010 conviction for the murder of her partner Bob Chappell) in Hobart’s Supreme Court commencing Monday, March 1, 2021, we have compiled … Continue reading →

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Robert Richter QC to lead Sue Neill-Fraser appeal team

Posted on February 24, 2021 by andrew

One of the prominent barristers who has always maintained that Sue Neill-Fraser’s murder conviction is unsustainable, Melbourne based Robert Richter QC, has announced in the Tasmanian Court of Criminal Appeal today via videolink from Melbourne that he will lead her … Continue reading →

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Parole – not if you’re innocent

Posted on February 22, 2021 by andrew

Special National Investigation by Andrew L. Urban It is reasonable to argue that those wrongfully convicted of a serious crime who are genuinely innocent are the most deserving of parole. The cruel irony is that they are the least likely … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser appeal – logistics update

Posted on February 18, 2021 by andrew

Sue Neill-Fraser’s Melbourne-based instructing solicitor, Paul Galbally’s travel hopes to attend her new appeal against her 2010 murder conviction in Hobart’s Supreme Court from March 1 improved markedly today as Tasmania lifted the high risk level restrictions on travellers from … Continue reading →

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