Fuck me George Pell just got his conviction squashed.
Lost for words except fuck the high court
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I hope he goes to Italy ASAP and helps out with corona virus patients.
Jolanta
Level 9
Apr 7, 2020
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Yes, maybe he could be a personal spiritual advisor
Let him out for Easter didn't they? Gaol to isolation!
FrayedBear
Level 9
Apr 7, 2020
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It was a 7-0 decision, and based on the law, not emotion. Whilst I dislike the man intensely and find his comments to be usually grossly insensitive, and I think his view of the rights of victims is immoral, yet, for all that, I'm in no position to second guess the high court. At law, the original conviction was problematic, and the court of appeal's decision (2-1) was even more so.
Doubting
Level 6
Apr 6, 2020
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the law? as in justice? pfft! I wonder what the outcome would've been if he'd been using legal aid which is what many 'innocents' have to rely on. Who paid his legal fees anyway?
Hate to play devil's advocate, but the case was problematic, and though I despise the man, in a way I'm not surprised.
David1955
Level 8
Apr 6, 2020
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@powder The problem at law was not the lack of witnesses; the point of law was the extent to which 'opportunity witnesses' were given sufficient weight and thus make it wrong for a jury to render a guilty verdict beyond reasonable doubt. The High Court determined unanimously that this evidence provided by these witnesses made the guilty verdict unsafe.
Let me quote from the initial statement of the court: "The Court held that, on the assumption that the jury had assessed the complainant's evidence as thoroughly credible and reliable, the evidence of the opportunity witnesses nonetheless required the jury, acting rationally, to have entertained a reasonable doubt as to the applicant's guilt in relation to the offences involved in both alleged incidents."
I understand the reaction to this decision. I can't stand the man and his attitudes, which to me, are quite repugnant and antediluvian.
Of course. Why am I not surprised.
If it was Fsther Brennan or Father O’Malley they wouldn’t have been so lucky!
Geoffrey51
Level 8
Apr 6, 2020
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Blind freddy saw that coming.
FrayedBear
Level 9
Apr 6, 2020
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@powder Lady Justice was on Self-Isolation so it seems.
I'm kinda wondering how much was 'donated' to the members of the Bench for them to quash Prisoner 666's conviction.
My most heartfelt sympathies go out to the two survivors who stood tall and brought Pell's wrong-doings into the Glaring light of Public Scrutiny, I hope they start Civil Proceedings against Pell and the ENTIRE Nest of Rock-Spiders, aka, the Catholic Church a.s.a.p and bring it crashing down around that filthy nest of low-life Scum.
And after this travesty of Justice I'd say that the High Bench members would be about as popular with the average, decent, caring Australian people as would a Proctologist's middle finger at a Nudist's Convention.
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