Posted on 08/08/2019 8:05:32 PM PDT by naturalman1975
The Court of Appeal has been dealing with last-minute questions about the way George Pell’s jury was empanelled as it prepares to deliver its ruling on one of the nation’s biggest legal cases.
The three judges have been examining the law around how Pell was arraigned when no jury panel members were physically present in the court.
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If the court were to rule in favour of Pell on the arraignment matter, it could potentially lead to a retrial, although the favoured outcome for the defence would be that the court finds the jury had erred by convicting Pell on the five charges at St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996 and 1997.
If this were to occur, it would lead to the convictions being overturned.
The third ground of appeal is whether County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd erred by preventing the defence from using a computer-generated video that showed dots moving around a diagram of the layout of St Patrick’s Cathedral to describe human activity during and after a solemn mass.
The Court of Appeal will inevitably keep secret its innermost workings and deliberations over the Pell case with no one but the three judges having any idea how they will rule on the case.
It has been more than two months since the appeal was heard, meaning the judges will soon make public their deliberations. It is likely to be made this month, several legal sources have forecast.
Legal experts believe the judges have been in no rush to rule in part because of the gravity of the case and in part because of the distinct possibility that the High Court will be asked to rule on the matter, regardless of who wins the appeal.
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He began to expose financial mismanagement at the Vatican and they seem to be happy with his troubles.
I pray he wins this case. It appears to be a real travesty designed to hurt the church and this good man.
What we have seen of late is the actual homosexuals running scot-free while the best men in the Church are falsely convicted as homosexual abusers. Satan reigns on earth for now, but his defeat is inevitable.
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