Usually in any child abuse case, there is some supporting prosecution evidence, or at any rate a lack of defence evidence. But that didn’t happen in this case, which as we lawyers say “turns on its own facts”.
Analysis: Why Australia’s seven most senior judges overturned the Pell verdict
There is “a significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted because the evidence did not establish guilt …
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This was a frightening case of convicting a Catholic cleric simply because they wanted a Catholic cleric convicted.