Pretorius – King Neptune and the Mermaids
Three women in close consultation at the beach and elsewhere — unanimously gave police a detailed description of his swimming trunks almost as far from the actual colour as it is possible to be, and gave him a beard when he was clean shaven. The Qld Supreme Court ordered a new trial, then, with repeat trials being rigged popularity contests, a re-hashed team of Supreme ‘justices’ pronounced him guilty as charged despite the earlier Supreme team showing he could not be guilty as charged. The High Court of Australia neglected to bring their hearing aids to the final.
Martens
Extract, SBS News Service/A.A.P., 13th Nov., 2009: “Martens spent almost 1,000 days in Lotus Glen prison, west of Cairns, before being released in May this year after new evidence cast doubt on his conviction. …… He also blames the Australian Federal Police for the death of his six-month-old daughter Stephanie, who died in PNG because […]
Heywood
R v. Philip Bruce Heywood, Qld grazier, provider, amongst other publications, of these case studies. Judges McMurdo, Mullins, J.A Fraser, J.A Fraser presiding, Qld Supreme Court of Appeal, 16th October 2020. Appeal dismissed. Succinct Grounds of appeal: The evidence was changed to the near diametric opposite without warning in magistrate’s court, allowing no time to prepare a […]