Published: March 01, 2019
George Pell’s trials on child sexual assault charges have received unprecedented public attention. Melissa Davey, one of the few reporters who sat through the entire process, answers some of the most common questions raised since his conviction
Pell may have been willing to go into the witness box. But it is unusual for the defendant to do so in sexual abuse cases in Australia. While we can never know what jurors were thinking, there may have been some who wondered why a high-profile and intelligent person did not take the stand.
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