Monday 3 March, 1947
Today, less than two months
after our grandfather's arrest, the murder trial officially known as Rex
v Brown commenced in Brisbane. The Crown prosecutor's opening address,
included a piece of significant 'evidence' which, he said, would be later relayed
to the court by the 'Crown witness' himself. However the Crown failed
to call this 'witness' to the stand, therefore Reg's defence team were
denied the opportunity of cross-examination. This is, naturally, considered to be
fundamentally unfair and unethical and would support an application
to discharge the jury on the basis it involved a mistrial. The breach
was not acknowledged; not by the Crown, the defence team nor the
Supreme Court judge, (Sir) Alan Mansfield.
Deb and Jan
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