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17 votes
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Lawyer: Shooter wasn't trying to kill a mob boss. He was under 'QAnon' delusion
17 votes -
While cities are trying to reform their criminal-justice systems, smaller, more far-flung locales are struggling to provide basic legal services
4 votes -
New York landlords call rent control laws an 'illegal taking' in new Federal lawsuit
3 votes -
NYPD officer will not face federal criminal charges in Eric Garner's death
6 votes -
Judge advises $14m in damages to Jewish woman targeted by neo-Nazi ‘troll storm’
11 votes -
James Alex Fields Jr. sentenced to life plus 419 years for killing one person and injuring dozens during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017
20 votes -
Acosta resigns as labor secretary over Epstein plea deal
15 votes -
Jeffrey Epstein arrested for sex trafficking of minors, will appear in New York court on Monday
20 votes -
Alabama woman loses unborn child after being shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free
17 votes -
US Supreme Court punts on one of the most important tribal land cases ever
7 votes -
The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened
14 votes -
Man who shared mosque shooting livestream sentenced to twenty-one months in prison
20 votes -
Alex Jones sent Sandy Hook victims files with child sex abuse images, say lawyers
18 votes -
Man accused of Christchurch mosque shootings pleads not guilty to fifty-one murder charges
9 votes -
Hong Kong delays debate on extradition bill as thousands of protesters block key roads
8 votes -
Accused Darwin shooter tells court he is 'very sorry about what's happened'
6 votes -
US judge tosses all charges in white nationalist rioting plot
15 votes -
Boris Johnson has been ordered to appear in court over claims he lied by saying the UK gave the EU £350m a week
11 votes -
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange charged in eighteen-count superseding indictment
19 votes -
Julian Assange: Swedish prosecutor requests detention of WikiLeaks founder
7 votes -
Accused mosque shooter now facing terrorism charge
4 votes -
House Intelligence Committee releases transcripts of Michael Cohen's closed-door testimony
12 votes -
Once defiant, all four white supremacists charged in Charlottesville violence plead guilty
13 votes -
Justine Damond Ruszczyk's family wins record $US20 million payment over wrongful death
6 votes -
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to fifty weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions, still faces possible extradition to US
8 votes -
Noor found guilty in Ruszczyk [a.k.a. Justine Damond] killing
6 votes -
Musk must face cave rescuer lawsuit over ‘pedo guy’ tweet
16 votes -
The man arrested in relation to the Christchurch terror attacks will face fifty murder charges and thirty-nine attempted murder charges
17 votes -
Alleged Christchurch mosque shooter makes formal complaint from prison
7 votes -
Meng Hongwei: China to prosecute former Interpol chief
4 votes -
US jury acquits White former police officer in fatal shooting of unarmed Black teen
8 votes -
Ukrainian kidnapped by FSB in Belarus, given six-year jail term
5 votes -
San Francisco to pay $13.1 million to man framed by police for murder
6 votes -
Paul Manafort sentenced to forty-seven months in US prison for tax and bank fraud
17 votes -
Former officer Mohamed Noor pleads not guilty to Justine Ruszczyk Damond’s death
3 votes -
Chagossians urge caution over UN legal win
6 votes -
Supreme Court orders new hearing for death row inmate with dementia
8 votes -
Stone posted a picture of the Federal judge on his case with crosshairs
10 votes -
Newly released bodycam footage from an excessive force lawsuit shows Glendale, AZ police officers tasing man eleven times
14 votes -
Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of extortion and blackmail
30 votes -
Court upholds conviction of Michelle Carter in texting-suicide case
5 votes -
Uber loses appeal over driver employment rights
8 votes -
Child asylum seeker allegedly raped on Nauru sues Federal Government for damages
6 votes -
Australian Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sex abuse offences - but reporting of this is banned in Australia.
So... here's an article I read in my newspaper earlier this week: "Why the media is unable to report on a case that has generated huge interest online". As you might imagine, this left me quite...
So... here's an article I read in my newspaper earlier this week: "Why the media is unable to report on a case that has generated huge interest online". As you might imagine, this left me quite unenlightened. I had no way of knowing or guessing what this case was, or who was involved. It was only a few days later, in conversation with some people I work with, that I found out what had happened.
And this is the first chance I've had since then to sit down and research the story for myself.
In short, Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic Church official to stand trial for sexual abuse, has been convicted of sexual abuse offences relating to his time as Archbishop of Melbourne in the late 1990s.
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From the National Catholic Reporter: "Cardinal Pell found guilty of sex abuse, expected to appeal, reports say"
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From the Washington Post: "Australian court convicts once-powerful Vatican official on sex-abuse-related charges"
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From the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/vatican-no-3-cardinal-george-pell-on-trial-for-historical-child-sex-charges (I can't confirm this one - it's reportedly geo-blocked for Australian readers)
However, the Victorian court hearing the case has imposed a suppression order on the case, which applies in every jurisdiction in Australia. We have seen no reporting of the case as it proceeded, and no reporting of the outcome.
Before some people start assuming that this is protecting the Church, it's related to the right of an accused person to a free trial. Cardinal Pell is facing another trial in a few months for further charges of sexual abuse on a minor (relating to his time as a priest in Ballarat in the 1970s), and the court feels that reporting the outcome of this trial will potentially influence any possible jurors for that trial. Those possible jurors should go into that trial without any preconceived ideas of the accused person's guilt - and reporting that he is guilty of similar charges will undermine his right to a fair trial.
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From the Washington Post: "A top cardinal’s sex-abuse conviction is huge news in Australia. But the media can’t report it there."
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From the New York Post: "Australian media barred from covering cardinal’s conviction for sex abuse
All that we in Australia are being told is "George Pell removed from Pope Francis's cardinal advisory body". It's obvious why he was removed... if you know about the conviction.
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Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison
28 votes -
Victorian Government calls royal commission into potentially tainted gangland convictions
4 votes -
Philippine court jails three police officers for drugs war murder
6 votes -
Turkey sentences seventy-four to life in prison in post-coup case: Anadolu
7 votes -
Last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling
7 votes