Author Archives: andrew

Shopping to improve The System

Posted on February 18, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Jury research, divorcing forensic services from police and quality control of The System – a shopping list for reforms in a new book by Professor Stephen Cordner AM and Dr Kerry Breen AO. 

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The UK post office scandal of wrongful convictions began 14 years ago

Posted on February 17, 2024 by andrew

ANDREW BRIDGEN, Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, reveals the back story of this serial miscarriage of justice. “In 2010, as a newly elected MP, nothing prepared me for a constituency surgery appointment with Michael and Susan Rudkin, a … Continue reading →

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Presumption of guilt & the burden of proof

Posted on February 17, 2024 by andrew

The presumption of innocence is under attack, writes DAVID RICHARDS, founding member of Australians For Science and Freedom (ASF). 

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Folbigg’s lawyer (also) questions the system

Posted on February 12, 2024 by andrew

It has taken two lawyers working pro bono, lifelong friends who won’t give up, experts who worked for free, strong supporters behind the scenes and much more. What does this say about our system if we need all of this … Continue reading →

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Faked admission of a rape that didn’t happen

Posted on February 11, 2024 by andrew

The day before the rape trial began, the complainant’s deception came to light: she had rehearsed a script for a phone call to manipulate AA* into making admissions to a rape that didn’t happen. In the interest of public debate … Continue reading →

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UK Post Office scandal: 700 wrongly convicted

Posted on February 7, 2024 by andrew

Channel 7 will screen UK ITV’s drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office over two evenings on 14 and 21 February, the dramatised true story that finally broke the UK’s shocking post office scandal into the public consciousness, and has … Continue reading →

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New York takes the wrongful conviction cake

Posted on February 4, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Bypassing the police with her rape allegation, the complainant publishes it in a book, some 37 years later. But it may have been 36 years …The case goes to trial in a civil court. 

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Mark Tedeschi KC “impermissibly straining for a conviction”

Posted on February 1, 2024 by andrew

To date, we have published 37 negative comments from readers on this blog about the former NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi KC, adding to our own criticisms of his prosecutorial behaviour in several cases. Tedeschi finally resigned in 2018 … Continue reading →

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CCRC – how NOT to do it

Posted on January 31, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.  The worst possible failure of a Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is to TWICE refuse to review a case on the request of the accused before DNA proves the accused was wrongfully convicted in the first place … Continue reading →

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Remember Robert Xie, another murder by the prosecution

Posted on January 28, 2024 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. ANNIVERSARY OF SHAME: On February 4, 2015, nine years ago this weekend, the third trial began of Robert Xie for the brutal murder of five members of his wife’s family. Eleven months later, it became the longest … Continue reading →

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