NOTA BENE Mark this in your calendar and register for on-line attendance: Dr. Robert Moles will be leading a three hour class on the materials for his forthcoming book (which I eagerly await!): 'False Witness: The Disgraceful Dr Manock: Australia's greatest forensic and legal disaster. A central feature of the discussion: Derek Bromley, described by Dr, Moles as: A central feature of the discussion will be a focus on the case of Derek Bromley - a proud aboriginal man of the Ngarrindjeri and Narrunga people from South Australia . Wrongfully convicted, he served 40 years imprisonment before his recent release on parole."

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TO REGISTER:

https://www.wea-sa.com.au/54504

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BACKGROUND: HOW COLIN MANOCK WAS ALLOWED - UTTERLY UNCHECKED   - TO CORRODE SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE  SYSTEM:  "For reasons not yet explained, South Australia in the late 1960s employed a person as chief forensic pathologist who was not qualified to do autopsies or to give evidence in court as an expert witness.  Despite informing the Supreme Court of these facts in the mid-1970s, forensic services continued to employ him in that capacity for the next 20 years. They enabled him to conduct 10,000 autopsies and to help secure over 400 wrongful convictions.  Dr Robert Moles revealed those facts in a national television program in 2001. Since then, he has conducted over 100 media discussions of these issues, written several books for the public and legal practitioners and made numerous applications to the courts.  Astonishingly, the courts have never permitted the disturbing facts concerning these issues to be admitted in any of those legal proceedings.  You will be shocked to learn of the extent of the incompetent, dishonest and flawed evidence used by the state to secure wrongful convictions and to cover-up serious crimes.  Despite wrongful convictions being a hot topic in the USA, Canada, the UK and New Zealand, none of them have anything to compare with the experience we have endured here in South Australia. (Dr. Bob Moles);

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BIO: Dr. Moles: "Dr Bob Moles - Miscarriages of Justice - South Australia, interstate and overseas. The speaker is an internationally acclaimed expert on these issues. He has appeared on many television and radio programs and published leading textbooks and academic articles on these issues. He is regularly involved as an advisor on many of Australia's leading wrongful conviction cases. In this lecture, Dr Moles will discuss many well-known South Australian criminal cases including that of Henry Keogh and Derek Bromley. His work has led to the creation of new appeal rights in five Australian jurisdictions - the first significant change to the appeal rights in Australia in over 100 years. He has provided submissions to the law reform agencies in Canada and the UK and discussed their cases in his books. This lecture is one not to be missed. A link to many of the general issues together with books and articles can be found at the Networked Knowledge Homepage: http//netk.net.au

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THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: "Eight of the country's leading experts (including those retained by the prosecution) gave unequivocal and uncontroverted expert opinions stating that the evidence given at his trial was false and misleading. Despite that, the appeal court and the High Court of Australia, both refused him leave to appeal.  The reasoning of both courts was clearly inconsistent with well established legal principles governing criminal appeals.  Two of the judges of the High Court stated that he had clearly been the victim of a substantial miscarriage of justice and should have been acquitted.  Henry Keogh had only recently had his conviction for murder overturned on substantially similar evidence." 

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A RULING WHICH CRIES OUT TO BE CORRECTED: "This is an unprecedented calamity for the Australian legal system. If it is not corrected, the ruling will present insurmountable obstacles to the use of expert witnesses in future criminal cases.  At a time of much talk about 'reconciliation' and 'closing the gap' we must not become silent witnesses to such egregious misuse of our legal system."

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INSTRUCTIONS FROM DR.  MOLES  FOR JOINING THE CLASS IN PERSON OR ONLINE: "Just follow the link below - and if you are outside South Australia, please check the time difference with your location. You will be provided with links to substantial online sources to support our discussion. Registration is required: 

The entire notice from Dr, Moles can be read at:

https://www.wea-sa.com.au/54504

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985

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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!

Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;

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