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Tas. Legislative Council hears case to reopen Sue Neill-Fraser appeal

Posted on August 31, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban In a significant development in the afternoon of August 31, 2021, in the Sue Neill-Fraser case, Tasmanian Legislative Council member the Hon. Michael Gaffney MLC (Ind), Member for Mersey, devoted his first adjournment speech in 13 years … Continue reading →

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Could a prosecutor convince a jury of murder without proof?

Posted on August 22, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban.  It’s a circumstantial case: a murder has been committed but police can find no primary evidence to identify and charge a suspect. It’s not a ‘Whodunnit?’ game, but the reality in not one but two unique murder … Continue reading →

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Talking to Strangers – why we (and police and judges) mostly get it wrong

Posted on July 26, 2021 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. The full title of Malcolm Gladwell’s book is Talking to Strangers: what we should know about the people we don’t know. For someone who did in fact talk to many, many strangers on the streets of Australia … Continue reading →

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The Honourable List – a start

Posted on July 30, 2020 by andrew

Doing the honourable thing by accepting responsibility for mistakes within the criminal justice system stands out as a novelty, it sometimes seems to us. So we want to recognise some of those who have done the honourable thing, apologising for … Continue reading →

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Sue Neill-Fraser trial flashback – the defence closing submission

Posted on July 25, 2020 by andrew

Marking 11 years since her arrest (August 20, 2009) and while awaiting the oft-delayed start of Sue Neill-Fraser’s further appeal against her conviction for the murder of Bob Chappell (now scheduled for November 2, 2020), we publish the transcript of … Continue reading →

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Secret strategies – how they secure murder convictions without evidence

Posted on July 5, 2020 by andrew

In his book, Murder by the Prosecution (Wilkinson Publishing) ANDREW L. URBAN reports on murder trials that relied exclusively on circumstantial evidence and how these resulted in convictions – since overturned or under appeal. Through exploring these cases he came … Continue reading →

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A cancerous phenomenon

Posted on June 13, 2020 by andrew

One of Australia’s most respected former detectives, COLIN McLAREN, has broken rank from police circles, to speak out against a judicial system he no longer believes in. Indeed, he suffered threats of arrest because he dared to find glaring faults … Continue reading →

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Gordon Wood back in court to press his claim of malicious prosecution

Posted on November 19, 2019 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. Three floors above the court room where 14 months earlier NSW Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Fullerton demolished Mark Tedeschi QC’s prosecution of Gordon Wood for being “disingenuous” and “impermissibly straining for a conviction” (for murder) yet dismissed … Continue reading →

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Time to end prosecutorial immunity

Posted on March 26, 2018 by andrew

By Frederick Block * JABBAR COLLINS languished in jail for over 16 years for a murder he apparently never committed. He was only freed a few years ago when it was revealed at a post-conviction hearing that the main witness at … Continue reading →

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Seek the culprits not convictions

Posted on November 17, 2014 by janitor

Symposium on Miscarriages of Justice, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Nov. 7 & 8, 2014. Andrew L. Urban reports. Pursuing convictions at the expense of catching the actual culprits of serious crimes, grave errors at trial by prosecutors and judges alike, … Continue reading →

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