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Not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure a judge can overturn a jury conviction on appeal if the evidence was insufficient for some of the charges that no reasonable person could find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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But isn't that precisely what a jury is there to decide? What's the point of even running the trial if that's the case?
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Not a lawyer either but the crux of it is that it’s rather unusual to convict someone of a serious crime based solely on the testimony of the complainant, for obvious reasons. No doubt Richter will argue that the jury came to its conclusions based on extrinsic evidence.
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It’s obviously difficult for any of us to comment as we haven’t heard the testimony, only parts of it, and it’s clear that it must have been very compelling for a jury to accept it.
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What happens if the appeal is successful? Can the appeal be appealed? Where does it stop? Cheers
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In my opinion there are enough Pedophiles in Australia’s Judiciary & influential Parliamentarians, to ensure that Pell gets off with Appeal overturning his conviction. Many lenient sentences & inexplicable parole of perpetrators point to Pedophiles in influential positions.
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He's a deadman walking anyway.
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