May 22, 2012

Peter Halloran released

Peter Halloran

The story of Peter Halloran disturbed me. I’m pleased to read that he’s now been released. From The Age: Senior Victorian police officer Peter Halloran was last night cleared by the Sierra Leone Court of Appeal of sexually assaulting a teenage girl while working as a war crimes investigator for the United Nations. Superintendent Halloran [...]

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Being a suspect

police suspect

It must be difficult being a clean suspect in a police investigation. Through no fault of your own, fate and circumstance could make you a person of interest. The Age today reported the sad story of a real estate agent being murdered in Melbourne. This triggered my interest earlier in the day when a breaking [...]

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Conviction

Conviction by Richard North Patterson is a powerful and disturbing book about truth, justice and the American way. It poses more questions than it answers, incisively exposing the flawed legal system in the United States, where elected judges care more for public opinion than justice. It tells the story of a semi-retarded black man, Rennell [...]

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