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FRAMED – May 8, 2025, Sydney book launch invitation

Posted on May 6, 2025 by andrew

Stuart Tipple, the lawyer who represented Lindy Chamberlain, will officially launch Andrew L. Urban’s latest book, FRAMED – how the legal system framed Robert Xie for the Lin family murders, on Thursday May 8, 2025. Margaret Cunneen SC will be … Continue reading →

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FRAMED – REVIEWS

Posted on April 30, 2025 by andrew

Some first readers of Andrew L. Urban’s new book, FRAMED – how the legal system framed Robert Xie for the Lin family murders, share their responses. “After several years of research, Andrew Urban’s new book, Framed, is a thorough examination of … Continue reading →

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Free the dangerous, jail the innocent?

Posted on April 26, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban “Why do we keep letting monsters out?” That’s the headline on the top editorial in the Saturday Telegraph (26/4/2025). The context is the latest murder of a young woman (Audrey Griffin) by a man free on parole … Continue reading →

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Prosecution and Judge had reasonable doubt – why not the jury?

Posted on April 16, 2025 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Robert Xie’s infamous convictions for the five murders of the Lin family in 2009 relied on the jury being convinced Beyond Reasonable Doubt of his guilt. But not even the prosecution or the trial judge were so … Continue reading →

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Drug gang gets away with murder of Lin family

Posted on April 6, 2025 by andrew

Robert Xie spent four years and seven months incarcerated without a conviction. He was finally convicted after a hung jury in his third trial triggered a fourth trial in 2016/17. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the savage murder … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 02 Henry Keogh, Case 04 Gordon Wood, Case 05 Derek Bromley, Case 11 Robert Xie, Case 22 Noel Greenaway | 11 Comments

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.

Posted in Case 01 Sue Neill-Fraser, Case 02 Henry Keogh, Case 04 Gordon Wood, Case 06 'Paul', Case 11 Robert Xie, Case 13 Robert Farquharson, Case 17 Kathleen Folbigg | 32 Comments

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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