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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">Couldn’t agree more!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">There were no witnesses, there were errors in the boy’s testimony, Pell does not fit the profile of a paedophile and nothing has happened in the last 22 years
nor prior.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">The guilty priests have set a precedent for the jury, and they judged him on that and the boy (man’s testimony) which cannot be verified in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">They simply believed the boy (man).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">Notice when the sentencing was read out, there were no images of Pell whatsoever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">In Police interviews, Pell claimed it could never have happened because he was outside, the choir master looked after the boys and the wine was always under
lock and key.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">There was always someone in the pre sacristy and sacristy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">Why would Pell not have locked the door???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">A complete stitch up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">All it takes is someone to accuse you of something, without evidence nor witnesses and you’re completely stuffed!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91">Lindsay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#365F91"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Racing [mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>norsaintpublishing@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 21 March 2019 9:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] Pell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Quite. A very dangerous precedent. An obvious stitch up and national disgrace. Another one. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 18:34, Rob Waterhouse <<a href="mailto:robbie@robwaterhouse.com">robbie@robwaterhouse.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","serif";color:#333333">THE AUSTRALIAN</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","serif";color:black">Pell case attracts inaccurate views</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">GERARD HENDERSON</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">R v George Pell was one of the highest-profile cases in the history of criminal law in</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Australia. Similar in its news impact to Lindy Chamberlain</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
conviction (followed by</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">acquittal) in the 20th century and Ned Kelly</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
conviction (followed by hanging) in the 19th</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">century.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">As such, it is more important than usual for reporters and commentators to be factual
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">—</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">especially in view of the international attention the case has attracted. Unfortunately, the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">coverage so far has had many blemishes
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">—</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> which go to a basic misunderstanding of the law</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">and how it operates.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">On Wednesday, ABC TV</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
</span><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif";color:#333333">The Drum
</span></i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">devoted the first half of the program to a discussion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">on Pell</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
sentencing, following his conviction in December last year by a jury of 12.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Victoria, unlike such jurisdictions as NSW and Queensland, does not provide for trial by</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">judge alone.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Early in
</span><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif";color:#333333">The Drum</span></i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
discussion, presenter Craig Reucassel said emphatically that </span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">a judge</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">and 12 individuals have found him guilty</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">.
This is hopelessly wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">If Reucassel had studied Chief Judge Peter Kidd</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
sentencing remarks, he would know that,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">early on, the judge had this to say:
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">I must at law give full effect to the jury</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
verdict; it is</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">not for me to second-guess the verdict.</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">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">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Cathedral in a room with the door open, he said:
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">If I am required to identify other</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">By
</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT","serif";color:black">GERARD HENDERSON</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:black">COLUMNIST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"ArialMT","serif";color:black">12:00AM MARCH 16, 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">explanations as to why you (Pell) were prepared to take on the risk of somebody walking in</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">on you into the priests</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">
sacristy, then I do.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">By the jury</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
verdict, this offending occurred, and no one walked into the priests</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> sacristy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">while you were offending. These are the facts which I must act on.</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">In other words, Kidd made it clear
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">—</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> and properly so
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">—</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> that his role as the trial judge is to</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">accept the jury</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
verdict as fact without second-guessing its decision.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Reucassel should have known this, as should his producer, who could have advised an onair</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">correction but apparently did not.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">In the discussion, panellist Shivani Gopal claimed that Pell offending against one of the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">boys, called
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">R</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">,
resulted in his death. In fact, the sentencing judge said that </span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">it is common</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">ground between the parties that R</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
death is not related to the offending against R</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Reucassel did correct this error. However, he said nothing when Gopal criticised Pell</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
sixyear</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">sentence as too soft, claiming that white-collar criminals
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">go to jail for life</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">This is mere hyperbole and quite unfair to Kidd. It can always be argued that a particular</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">sentence is too soft or too hard. However, it seems in this case the sentence was about right</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">for the charges on which the jury found the defendant guilty.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Pell would have received a shorter sentence if he had pleaded guilty but he maintains his</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">innocence and his appeal will be heard by the Victorian Court of Appeal in early June.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Without regard to the sentence, it is important to remember that Kidd said that Pell had led</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">an otherwise blameless life in the 22 years
since the offending</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> in 1996. He also referred to</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Pell</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">otherwise good character</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">The errors in commentary about R v George Pell did not stop at the ABC. Just after the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">sentencing findings were handed down, Derryn Hinch tweeted that the judge
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">saw right</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">through him (Pell)</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">.
This despite the fact that Kidd had said that, by law, he had to accept</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">the jury</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
decision.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Then on Thursday, Ray Hadley led off his high-rating 2GB/4BC program with the claim</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">that Pell</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
appeal would only be with respect to law, not facts. Two out of three matters</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">involve questions of law. However, the principal grounds of appeal are that the verdicts are</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">unreasonable having regard to the evidence. Pell</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
appeal grounds are contained in a public</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">document that is available to Hadley and all his listeners. There is no excuse for error.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Graham Richardson normally talks a lot of sense. But he was not in the best of form at the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">start of his Sky News program
</span><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif";color:#333333">Richo
</span></i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">on Wednesday.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Richardson claimed that, with respect to Pell,
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">there</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
been this massive effort with silence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">orders and things to try and make no one have an idea about what</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
going on</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">. He added:
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">I</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">mean, if you</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">re
George Pell, you can get that. I think that if I was on trial for pedophilia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">tomorrow, I</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">d
have Buckley</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s at having my name removed
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">…</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> I think everyone would be</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">speaking it. It</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
just something I think the church has handled badly for so long.</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">In fact the suppression orders in the Pell case were issued by the Victorian County Court</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">and were supported by the Office of Public Prosecutions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">They were designed to make it possible for Pell to get a fair trial in a subsequent case. This</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">prosecution was dropped by the Victorian OPP when it determined that there was</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">insufficient evidence for a conviction
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">—</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333"> and the suppression order was lifted.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">In any event, suppression orders do not work in the age of social media.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Moreover, I am aware of one suppression order in a current pedophile case where the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">defendant is neither well known nor a Catholic.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">It is to be hoped that ill-informed media comment dissipates in the lead-up to the appeal.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">This is likely to be one of the most important legal cases in recent years.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">As
</span><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif";color:#333333">The Age</span></i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">’</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">s
crime reporter John Silvester has put it, the Court of Appeal has to consider</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">whether a verdict is safe in a case where the defendant
</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">“</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">was found guilty beyond reasonable</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">doubt on the uncorroborated evidence of one witness, without forensic evidence, a pattern</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">of behaviour or a confession.</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:#333333">”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Whatever the outcome of the appeal, this decision will set a precedent of far greater</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">significance than either the Chamberlain or Kelly cases.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif";color:#333333">Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute. His Media Watch Dog
blog</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT","serif";color:#333333">can be found at
<a href="http://theaustralian.com.au" target="_blank">theaustralian.com.au</a>.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:black">GERARD HENDERSON, COLUMNIST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Gerard Henderson is an Australian author, columnist and political commentator. He is the Executive</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif";color:#333333">Director of the Sydney Institute, a privately funded Australian current affairs forum. His Media
Watch</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] The SP, a shark, and the long arm of the Law</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">"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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Which places the conviction of George Pell in its proper context. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 17:13, Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com" target="_blank">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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>
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The shark disgorged a complete human arm and had not eaten anything while<br>
being observed.<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Cheers<br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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