Category: News Articles
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Abort to Prevent Miscarriage of Justice
In a recent article titled Lehrmann’s barrister refers Higgins’ public statement to court, police (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lehrmann-trial-aborted-after-juror-misconduct-20221027-p5btei.html), we heard how a jury member’s ‘indiscretion” in privately researching on the subject and the potential sharing of the information in the jury room was sufficient to abort and force a new trial. In addition to this, the article itself…
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How the UK press is failing victims of miscarriages of justice
Jon Robins, University of Brighton On September 20 2022, Adnan Sayed had his murder conviction overturned by a Baltimore judge after spending nearly 23 years in jail. His case had featured in the groundbreaking true-crime podcast Serial. As well as garnering an international following and spawning an entire genre of true-crime audio, TV and film,…