He told police 55 years ago that he’d killed a toddler. Why the law won’t touch him

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• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  Duty lawyers argued that his confession was inadmissible because of a 1987 law that stated an adult should be present during the questioning of a child. NSW Supreme Court judge Robert Hulme then ruled that the law applied retrospectively, and without the confession to rely upon, the director of public prosecutions dropped the charge.

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