CANBERRA (AUSTRALIA)
Herald-Sun via CathNews
March 12, 2020
By Shannon Deery
Much of yesterday’s High Court hearing focused on the issue with Bret Walker, SC, arguing Cardinal Pell routinely spent 10 or more minutes on the steps after Mass.
Mr Walker told the court if it was accepted that this occurred, it would have been impossible for him to offend.
For four-and-a-half hours Mr Walker spelled out Cardinal Pell’s appeal arguments, discussing evidence and acute legal points at length, before a full bench of the court.
But the court kept coming back to Cardinal Pell’s post-mass routine, and whether or not he would have had the time to commit the offences of which a jury found him guilty.
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