Today, legal justice has been thankfully, belatedly, served.
Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on all counts was quashed unanimously by the High Court. It’s a decision that has highlighted not only the flaws in the Crown’s case against Pell, the way it was prosecuted, raised questions of jury and – sadly – judicial bias, and the failure of a criminal jury to fund reasonable doubt on the evidence before it and, on the face of it, reversing the onus of guilt. Pell’s
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