(Civil Liberties Australia is actively campaigning, with Dr Bob Moles and his Networked Knowledge organisation, for the R2A (Right to Appeal) law to be ‘mirrored’ in all states and territories of Australia, and federally. The Tasmanian government, through Attorney-General Dr Vanessa Goodwin, a criminologist, has already agreed to do so.)
GIST: "There is an overwhelming case for the SA (South Australia) government to establish a
Royal Commission into why it has taken so long to recognise the Keogh
case as a miscarriage of justice, when it was so obvious at least 13
years ago. The Royal Commission, Civil Liberties Australia hopes, will morph
into an inquiry into the state of justice in Australia, as illustrated
by the demonstrated problems in SA. The same injustices inflicted on
Henry Keogh have occurred – and are occurring today – elsewhere in
Australia. Civil Liberties Australia is calling for all arms of the legal system
in Australia to actively promote a positive ‘Better Justice’ campaign
for the next decade. As a developed nation, with a refined legal system, we deserve better
than we have now. Hospitals and doctors learn from rigorous inquiries
into their mistakes, as does the aviation industry when a plane
crashes…but the legal/justice system rarely holds inquiries and never
translates any findings in one state into a better police, legal and
justice system in all states and territories and nationally. The Henry Keogh case is just one of many cases around Australia where
the establishment – politicians, judges, lawyers, forensic experts,
police, academics and organisations like ours as well – have let the
states and territories, and the nation, down.Those other cases include. Robin David Macartney in WA, currently dying in jail of cancer with
possibly only months to live, but with DNA evidence proving (according
to two Australian forensic experts) that he cannot be guilty of the
murder he was jailed for; Susan Neill-Fraser, in Tasmania, in the sixth year in Risdon Prison
of an 18-year sentence for a murder she did not commit, with no body, no
weapon, no admission, no eyewitness and no proof whatsoever beyond
reasonable doubt that a crime was committed, or that she committed a
crime; David Harold Eastman, recently released on bail but facing another
trial in the ACT after spending about 19 years in jail, convicted on
false forensic “evidence” and after information was withheld from his
defence team by the prosecution. The nation -– all western nations following the British justice
system – needs a better system for identifying which cases may be
miscarriages, and for proving or disproving the fairness of the
convictions. We need Better Justice…because what holds true at the
murder and major crime level almost certainly is worse at lowers levels
of the legal system, where there is not as much external monitoring and
checking on how well the system is working, or not. The Keogh case is a classic demonstration, though, of how hard it is
to achieve justice. Even when it was outrageously obvious that Keogh had
not had justice, the SA government failed to act. On 21 October 2001 – more than 13 years ago – the Adelaide legal,
judicial and political establishment, including the then
Attorney-General, were left in no doubt that numerous convictions
involving former state forensic science head Colin Manock were beyond
unsound…they were dangerous. Prime amongst them was that of Henry Keogh."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.cla.asn.au/News/keogh-free-royal-commission-needed/
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