Free despite murder confession
March 12, 2005
A MAN who confessed to killing two women walked free from court yesterday when a judge ruled the evidence too damning.
Father-of-two Lyle Simpson admitted being a killer, DNA evidence proved he was at the scene of one murder and he tried to commit suicide a day later.
Yet after three days of legal argument in the NSW Supreme Court, Judge Anthony Whealy ruled some evidence was just too damning and ran the risk of "unfair prejudice'' to the accused.
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1258&storyid=2796000
A judge is a law student who marks his own
examination papers. (H.L. Mencken
our courts need an enema..big time.
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