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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:19.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>THE AUSTRALIAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Pell case attracts inaccurate views<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>GERARD HENDERSON<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>R v George Pell was one of the highest-profile cases in the history of criminal law in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Australia. Similar in its news impact to Lindy Chamberlain</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s conviction (followed by<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>acquittal) in the 20th century and Ned Kelly</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s conviction (followed by hanging) in the 19th<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>century.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>As such, it is more important than usual for reporters and commentators to be factual </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>—</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>especially in view of the international attention the case has attracted. Unfortunately, the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>coverage so far has had many blemishes </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>—</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> which go to a basic misunderstanding of the law<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>and how it operates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>On Wednesday, ABC TV</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s </span><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The Drum </span></i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>devoted the first half of the program to a discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>on Pell</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s sentencing, following his conviction in December last year by a jury of 12.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Victoria, unlike such jurisdictions as NSW and Queensland, does not provide for trial by<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>judge alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Early in </span><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The Drum</span></i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s discussion, presenter Craig Reucassel said emphatically that </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>a judge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>and 12 individuals have found him guilty</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>. This is hopelessly wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If Reucassel had studied Chief Judge Peter Kidd</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s sentencing remarks, he would know that,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>early on, the judge had this to say: </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I must at law give full effect to the jury</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s verdict; it is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>not for me to second-guess the verdict.</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Later on, when referring to the matter that the spontaneous attacks took place at St Patrick</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cathedral in a room with the door open, he said: </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If I am required to identify other<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>By </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>GERARD HENDERSON</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>COLUMNIST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>12:00AM MARCH 16, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>explanations as to why you (Pell) were prepared to take on the risk of somebody walking in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>on you into the priests</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> sacristy, then I do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>By the jury</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s verdict, this offending occurred, and no one walked into the priests</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> sacristy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>while you were offending. These are the facts which I must act on.</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In other words, Kidd made it clear </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>—</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> and properly so </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>—</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> that his role as the trial judge is to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>accept the jury</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s verdict as fact without second-guessing its decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Reucassel should have known this, as should his producer, who could have advised an onair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>correction but apparently did not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In the discussion, panellist Shivani Gopal claimed that Pell offending against one of the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>boys, called </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>R</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>, resulted in his death. In fact, the sentencing judge said that </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>it is common<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>ground between the parties that R</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s death is not related to the offending against R</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Reucassel did correct this error. However, he said nothing when Gopal criticised Pell</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s sixyear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>sentence as too soft, claiming that white-collar criminals </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>go to jail for life</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is mere hyperbole and quite unfair to Kidd. It can always be argued that a particular<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>sentence is too soft or too hard. However, it seems in this case the sentence was about right<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>for the charges on which the jury found the defendant guilty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Pell would have received a shorter sentence if he had pleaded guilty but he maintains his<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>innocence and his appeal will be heard by the Victorian Court of Appeal in early June.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Without regard to the sentence, it is important to remember that Kidd said that Pell had led<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>an otherwise blameless life in the 22 years since the offending</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> in 1996. He also referred to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Pell</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>otherwise good character</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The errors in commentary about R v George Pell did not stop at the ABC. Just after the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>sentencing findings were handed down, Derryn Hinch tweeted that the judge </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>saw right<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>through him (Pell)</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>. This despite the fact that Kidd had said that, by law, he had to accept<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>the jury</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Then on Thursday, Ray Hadley led off his high-rating 2GB/4BC program with the claim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>that Pell</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s appeal would only be with respect to law, not facts. Two out of three matters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>involve questions of law. However, the principal grounds of appeal are that the verdicts are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>unreasonable having regard to the evidence. Pell</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s appeal grounds are contained in a public<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>document that is available to Hadley and all his listeners. There is no excuse for error.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Graham Richardson normally talks a lot of sense. But he was not in the best of form at the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>start of his Sky News program </span><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Richo </span></i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Richardson claimed that, with respect to Pell, </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>there</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s been this massive effort with silence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>orders and things to try and make no one have an idea about what</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s going on</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>. He added: </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>mean, if you</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>re George Pell, you can get that. I think that if I was on trial for pedophilia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>tomorrow, I</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>d have Buckley</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s at having my name removed </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>…</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> I think everyone would be<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>speaking it. It</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s just something I think the church has handled badly for so long.</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In fact the suppression orders in the Pell case were issued by the Victorian County Court<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>and were supported by the Office of Public Prosecutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>They were designed to make it possible for Pell to get a fair trial in a subsequent case. This<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>prosecution was dropped by the Victorian OPP when it determined that there was<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>insufficient evidence for a conviction </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>—</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> and the suppression order was lifted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In any event, suppression orders do not work in the age of social media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Moreover, I am aware of one suppression order in a current pedophile case where the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>defendant is neither well known nor a Catholic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It is to be hoped that ill-informed media comment dissipates in the lead-up to the appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is likely to be one of the most important legal cases in recent years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>As </span><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The Age</span></i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>’</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>s crime reporter John Silvester has put it, the Court of Appeal has to consider<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>whether a verdict is safe in a case where the defendant </span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>“</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>was found guilty beyond reasonable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>doubt on the uncorroborated evidence of one witness, without forensic evidence, a pattern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>of behaviour or a confession.</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>”</span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Whatever the outcome of the appeal, this decision will set a precedent of far greater<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>significance than either the Chamberlain or Kelly cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute. His Media Watch Dog blog<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>can be found at theaustralian.com.au.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>GERARD HENDERSON, COLUMNIST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Gerard Henderson is an Australian author, columnist and political commentator. He is the Executive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Director of the Sydney Institute, a privately funded Australian current affairs forum. His Media Watch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dog colu... </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:#277F9D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Read more</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Racing <racing-bounces@ausrace.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>norsaintpublishing@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 21 March 2019 5:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List <racing@ausrace.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] The SP, a shark, and the long arm of the Law<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"The defence argued that this information was hearsay, (it needs<br>corroboration to be admitted), and so it's inadmissible as it is."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Which places the conviction of George Pell in its proper context. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 17:13, Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>When fishing off a small boat just outside the breakers at Coogee a 14 foot<br>tiger shark was snared.<br>That is big, and on braid, it being pre-nylon in 1935 when this happened.<br>The shark was trailed ashore and taken over by the aquarium nearby. <br><br>The shark disgorged a complete human arm and had not eaten anything while<br>being observed.<br><br>The arm had tattoos of two boxers, the hands were fingerprinted and these<br>matched SP Jimmy Smith.<br><br>There was a summation that Smith had cheated on other crime figures, not SP<br>related though, and that Reginald Holmes<br>was involved, and further, Smith had been lured to a seaside house to meet<br>Patrick Brady and Brady had been recruited by<br>Holmes to murder Smith. The arm was severed from the body, and shown as<br>proof of the deed most foul having been completed, and the arm was <br>thrown in the sea to dispose of it, and this allows the entry of the shark<br>to this story.<br><br>Later, on the harbour now, the Police were called to the matter of an out of<br>control launch and on this launch the found<br>Holmes with a bullet wound, to the head. Holmes maintained he had been shot<br>by an unknown man, and again there was a summation that <br>Holmes had meant to suicide but this failed, it has to be said, and Holmes<br>was treated by a nurse and allowed to go home.<br><br>Brady gave series of statements and records or interview to Police, and<br>Detectives charged Brady with murder, of Smith.<br><br>Later, before the inquest of the presence of the arm, Holmes was found dead<br>at Dawes Point, near the Bridge, murdered<br>by shooting, 3 times under the heart with a .32" calibre firearm.<br><br>Holmes widow told the inquest that her husband told her that Brady killed<br>Smith, no specifics known.<br><br>The defence argued that this information was hearsay, (it needs<br>corroboration to be admitted), and so it's inadmissible as it is.<br>Further, an arm did not constitute a body, and Smith may well be alive,<br>without his arm. Although not habeas corpus, it kind of is.<br><br>Brady was acquitted after inquest evidence was allowed and admitted. <br><br>Smith was a SP in a South Coast town, the other SP was the Undertaker. Apart<br>from his perceived dislike by Holmes, Smith appears harmless.<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Tony<br><br><br>---<br>This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.<br><a href="https://www.avg.com" target="_blank">https://www.avg.com</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Racing mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Racing@ausrace.com" target="_blank">Racing@ausrace.com</a><br><a href="http://ausrace.com/mailman/listinfo/racing_ausrace.com" target="_blank">http://ausrace.com/mailman/listinfo/racing_ausrace.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>