STORY: "Eastman Inquiry in recess...for good?" by reporter Jack Waterford, published in the Canberra Times on December 7, 2013;
GIST: "The inquiry into the 1995 conviction of David Eastman for the 1989 murder of Assistant Police Commissioner Colin Winchester is over for the season - adjourned until January 20 - and may, if counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions is persuasive enough next week, be over for good.
Whether the latter outcome is just or desirable as a matter
of law to be determined by the ACT Supreme Court, but for the merely
curious, a termination of the inquiry at this point will leave some very
interesting - and for Eastman, critical - questions hanging. If the DPP
is successful, the ACT government will be under public pressure to have
a wider inquiry, not one more narrow. The DPP says the inquiry should be circumscribed, or quashed
altogether, because the grounds upon which it was ordered in September
last year by Justice Shane Marshall did not satisfy the legal
requirements. An inquiry can consider only fresh information or
argument, or matters which could not have been raised before the 1995
trial, the DPP says."GIST: "The inquiry into the 1995 conviction of David Eastman for the 1989 murder of Assistant Police Commissioner Colin Winchester is over for the season - adjourned until January 20 - and may, if counsel for the Director of Public Prosecutions is persuasive enough next week, be over for good.
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