Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions has urged the High Court to refuse George Pell’s bid to appeal his conviction for multiple child sex offences, warning it should be reluctant to override a jury verdict with its own judgments about the bitterly divisive case.
Kerri Judd, QC, told the High Court there was no error in the Victorian Court of Appeal’s majority decision to uphold Pell’s conviction and the Cardinal’s legal team had failed to raise any important question of law in his application for special leave to appeal.
(...) Pell is seeking to take his case to the High Court, arguing that justices Ferguson and Maxwell failed to properly weigh the testimony of the choirboy against evidence given by church figures who testified to the near impossibility of the offences taking place as described.
Pell’s lawyers told the High Court that Justice Weinberg, who in a lengthy dissenting judgment found that the jury should have had a reasonable doubt about the Cardinal’s guilt and his convictions should be quashed, applied the “correct judicial method’’ in reviewing the evidence.
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