Happy to see you out John, and that the fight is still in you.
David Brooks
At 09:37 PM 4/01/80 +0000, John Wilson wrote:
>Dear anyone who wants to know,
>
>Yesterday (29/2/2000) two of the three judges in the NSW Court of Appeal
>ruled to convert my 2 years without parole sentence given by Chief Justice
>at Common Law Wood on 9/11/1999 (without a jury) to 3 months and 20 days
>and I was released from the court, there and then. Perhaps there is a
>glimmer of hope creeeping through from the pit of judicial corruption?
>
>The conviction, itself, was not overturned. Therefore, our fundamental
>right to trial by jury remains denied.
>
>This is an international disgrace and Australia will be condemned for
>tryanny and oppression when the Olympic Games brings the eyes of the world
>to bear on us. Our High Court Judges used to say that trial by jury was
>"the palladium (safeguard) of liberty". Whatever the price of freedom is,
>the banks have obviously bought it.
>
>Will Prime Minister John Howard add to his comments that Australia is not
>bound to honour the international covenants it has signed by saying
>Australia does not have to allow its citizens their inherited and
>inalienable rights?
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>John Wilson.
>
>
>
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