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 of five members of his wife’s family in July 2009, including his two beloved young nephews under 13. Really. Continue reading →

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.  Continue reading →

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 asleep by his wife, as she confirmed. The prosecution, determined to negate the alibi, asserted without evidence that he drugged his wife.  Continue reading →

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.  Continue reading →

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 the street to the bench, led to Xie’s convictions. Continue reading →