![]() ![]() I mention the bizarre majority decision of the Victorian Court of Appeal because it may excuse the jury having reached the same verdict. Let’s see, beyond reasonable doubt, I think it is. Fortunately for me, the system of justice inherited from English common law generally requires a rather more persuasive level of proof than mere possibility. ![]() I have no iron-clad alibi and the possibility exists that I might have done it. Thus, the novel standard of proof of ‘not impossible’ was given legal currency.Īn old lady was unfortunately mugged last evening. I say ‘unfortunately’ because, in the most extraordinary twist of fate and logic, this allowed two appeal court judges out of three in the state of Victoria to reject his appeal in August 2019, by concluding that it was not impossible. Unfortunately, his defence team rightly argued (within the realms of common sense) that it was impossible for Pell to have committed the crimes. An appeal to the Victorian Supreme Court didn’t free him. The result: the innocent Cardinal spent 400 days in prison and had his name recorded on the Victorian Register of Sex Offenders. IF YOU followed the case and the evidence, Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic priest in Australia, could not possibly have committed the two crimes in 19 for which he was tried and convicted in 2018. Let me ask, is it evil to vindictively put an innocent priest in prison for crimes he could not possibly have committed? Is it evil to threaten imprisoning an 18-year-old boy for life because he dared defend himself against thugs from the street-rioting wing of the Democratic Party? First to the priest in Victoria. Make no mistake, don’t suffer from nostalgia. We are not in the niceties of the political debates of yore. Mobs driven by agendas, within which truth plays no part. But the leftist mobs would have their way. Neither case should ever have been brought to trial. Prejudiced progressives did their utmost to pervert the course of justice in both cases. One having no understanding of blind justice one which lived and breathed blind justice. One of questionable courage one of great courage. ![]() One spurning reason one embracing reason. One representing everything wrong one everything right. Maybe, after all, Western civilisation can be prevented from spiralling into an abyss. ![]()
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