In November last year, the two most junior members of the bench, Justice James Edelman and Justice Michelle Gordon, referred a decision on special leave to the full bench. This means that, even though the court has cleared its calendar to deal with Pell, it hasn’t yet decided whether to grant leave.In either of these scenarios, Pell would remain a convicted child sex offender and serve the remainder of his minimum, three year and eight month prison sentence.
“Even though this case is about a very important person and a notoriously significant decision, it is nevertheless still a case about a jury verdict of guilt where a court of appeal has found no legal reason for questioning that verdict,’’ Professor Keyzer told“The Chief Judge of the County Court heard the criminal trial and it was for the jury to determine whether Pell was guilty. The jury performed its role.
“There are hundreds of jury trials going on in Australia every year. We have held on to a tradition of jury trial in many jurisdictions for many types of trial because there is a strong belief that people have a significant role to play in making that assessment of guilt." “The Chief Justice and President Maxwell said if it was possible for the jury to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt, the verdict should stand,’’ Mr Collins said. “Justice Weinberg reassessed all the facts and asked himself should the jury have been satisfied.”
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