The Serpent wrote:Pell won't be excommunicated, nothing he's done or said to have done is punishable by excommunication under canon law.

Calilasseia wrote:So he's looking at being 80 or 81 before he becomes eligible for his first parole hearing, and if he serves the full 6 years, he'll be 83 if he lives long enough to leave prison. During those first 3 years and 8 months, he'll have to spend his time segregated for his own protection, as there will almost certainly be inmates of whichever prison he's sent to looking for a high profile scalp to bolster their reputations with. He'll be an irresistible target for the more vicious and violent inmates, some of whom may be serving longer sentences than he is, and who will consider extension of their sentences a price worth paying for being able to say "I snuffed out a high profile nonce".

Even if he's successfully protected from attempts to murder him by some of the other inmates, old age and disease could very well do the job for them before he serves out the 6 years.

Dozens of Australia's leading media editors and journalists, including staff at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, could face prison for contempt of court over allegations they breached a suppression order in reports published after George Pell's conviction on child sex abuse charges.

Victoria's Director of Public Prosecutions, Kerri Judd, QC, has named 36 organisations and individuals in a motion before the Supreme Court and applied that they be found guilty, convicted and either imprisoned or fined.

Hermit wrote:
Waiting now to hear that Pell will take the next step open to him: To lodge an appeal with the High Court in Canberra.

Spearthrower wrote:

Hermit wrote:
Waiting now to hear that Pell will take the next step open to him: To lodge an appeal with the High Court in Canberra.

One question that sprang to mind earlier when I was reading this: will he be remanded throughout? His sentence isn't pending appeal?

George Pell will get one last bid to overturn his child-sex convictions and restore his reputation after the High Court announced that it would hear his appeal.

Australia’s highest court said on Wednesday it had granted the disgraced Cardinal special leave to appeal his convictions on the five child sex abuse charges he was found guilty of last year.

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At the heart of Pell’s appeal to the High Court is the question of whether the evidence of a complainant in a sexual abuse case, no matter how compelling and believable, can eliminate all reasonable doubt raised by other witnesses.

At the heart of Pell’s appeal to the High Court is the question of whether the evidence of a complainant in a sexual abuse case, no matter how compelling and believable, can eliminate all reasonable doubt raised by other witnesses.

George Pell: Court quashes cardinal's sexual abuse convictions

A full bench of seven judges ruled unanimously in Cardinal Pell's favour, finding that the jury had not properly considered all the evidence presented at trial.

"The High Court found that the jury, acting rationally on the whole of the evidence, ought to have entertained a doubt as to the applicant's guilt," said the court in its judgement

George Pell: Court quashes cardinal's sexual abuse convictions

Cardinal George Pell has been freed from jail after Australia's highest court overturned his convictions for child sexual abuse.

The ex-Vatican treasurer, 78, was the most senior Catholic figure ever jailed for such crimes.

In 2018, a jury found he abused two boys in Melbourne in the 1990s.

But the High Court of Australia quashed that verdict on Tuesday, bringing an immediate end to Cardinal Pell's six-year jail sentence.

Hermit wrote:He finally got his out-of-jail card.

I'm With Stupid wrote:He's won his appeal.

Spearthrower wrote:

I'm With Stupid wrote:He's won his appeal.

I am genuinely shocked, this is absurd.