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A State of Injustice Kindle Edition

by Robert Moles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This is a book about bad science and a flawed criminal justice system … The challenge is how Australians as a community face up to the reality of serious miscarriages of justice.
Derrick Pounder, Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Dundee
Most people presume that the legal system works pretty well at dispensing justice. As a community we tend to believe that the fairness, rigour and democratic principles inherent in our justice system means that the presumption of innocence is protected, that only the truly guilty are sent to prison. But this is not always the case.
Drawing on painstaking research and insightful analysis, A State of Injustice examines various cases where forensic investigations were later found to be flawed. These cases have prompted calls for the establishment of a Criminal Cases Review Commission and raised doubts about the involvement of the former Chief of Forensic Pathology for South Australia, Dr Colin Manock, whose qualifications for the job have come into question. In view of the errors brought to light, author Robert Moles asks, have innocent people been wrongly imprisoned and have guilty parties literally gotten away with murder?
A State of Injustice will make every reader wonder: If the system fails, who then will protect the innocent?
This book deals with
Criminal justice principles
Police and forensic science procedures
Autopsy procedures and medical matters in cause and manner of death.
It deals with the cases of:
Frits Van Beelen 1972
David Szach 1979
Niewdach and Ellis 1992
Emily Perry 1981
John Highfold 1983 and Kingsley Dixon 1987
Terry Akritidis 1990
The Baby Deaths cases 1994
Henry Keogh 1995
Michael Penney 1996
It also deals with some serious plea-bargaining cases where it was thought that prosecutors had arrived at unduly favourable outcomes.
The book makes recommendations for reforms of the legal system, including the establishment of a Criminal Cases Review Commission.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009ZCIN0S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Robert N Moles; 1st edition (October 30, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 30, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 697 KB
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Robert N. Moles

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Bob was born at a very early age and brought up in Norwich, England. At the age of 19 the Norwich Union insurance company transferred him to their office in Londonderry Northern Ireland - just 2 months after the British Government sent the troops in.

Bob completed his law degree at Queen's University Belfast in 1978. He then went to Edinburgh University to undertake his PhD which was subsequently published as Definition and Rule in Legal Theory (1987).

After teaching at Belfast and at the Australian National University, he went to Adelaide, South Australia, where he discovered that there were serious defects in the administration of criminal justice there.

For the last 10 years, he has worked on the investigation of serious miscarriages of justice. He published A State of Injustice (2004), Losing Their Grip (2006) and Forensic Investigations and Miscarriages of Justice (2010).

He is now pressing for legislative changes to bring about necessary reforms to tackle some of the outstanding serious miscarriage of justice cases in Australia. He has developed Networked Knowledge which provides interntet based resources relating to the cases he has worked on - http://netk.net.au

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  • Simon Santoro
    5.0 out of 5 stars This well-written book is essential reading for any Australian interested ...
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    This well-written book is essential reading for any Australian interested in the processes of courts and justice, and more particularly, the use and misuse of forensic science in the prosecution of serious offenses. After a general introduction to the way Australia criminal courts work, and the basics of pathology and forensic science, the author summarises a number of recent cases, especially those in which verdicts may have relied on the work of disgraced South Australian state pathologist Colin Manock. This is a compelling and important book.
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