Quote Originally Posted by Not Guilty View Post
Hi Rights Fighter,
Yes the appeal was run by Senior Counsel and Barrister, both very experienced and well respected - both very disturbed by what they felt was now a dangerous precedent being set ( jury finding their own version from evidence not presented but compromising on a common ground.) I thought, as did they that any doubt they had should have been transferred to the other counts. That certainly was not the case and the NSWCCA went to great lengths to reconcile the verdicts, even in the face of such overwhelming inconsistencies. I then was forced to undertake an 18 month sentence - one that was very stressful for, not only me but my family as well. My wife, who was a police officer, was harassed at work by senior officers whilst I was in custody. I was threatened with having to do my full four year sentence if I did not address my offending behaviour and undertake a therapeutic program. Of course you had to confess your crime as far as addressing the offending behaviour - and if you deny the offence, your guilty as you are in denial - they could do anything to you as you were found guilty and of course treated that way. So I refused to do the program as I could not sell my soul to get early release. But a Corrections Officer collapsed directly in front of my in role call and I immediately commenced first aid. (hard habit to break from all those years protecting the public) Now all of that was placed on my custody file and all of a sudden, I was informed I would in fact be released on my earliest release date. When I was released, I then commenced investigating my matter. And oh boy did I blow her version of events clear apart. Not only did her best friend completely disinegrate her version, he also informed me via an official statement that this woman was in a relationship with the police officer who she was supposed to have confided the assault to. Then he advised me that she had slept with a female student five days after the alleged assault (this woman was a self confessed bi-sexual) and he gave names, times, dates and places. When I submitted this evidence, the Crown thought it serious enough to forward this evidence to the Crown Advocate, the highest level of Crown in the state of NSW -to get advice of the Crown Advocate whether the complainant had committed perjury - and then the cover up started. The Judge hearing my application for review of conviction was changed - changed to a judge that does sentence matters (i.e a judge that can justify a conviction). The Crown Advocate placed forward that the evidence I found was hearsay and opinion that would not be admissible if my matter went to retrial, therefore it should be dismissed - but nothing about the fact she had lied - not one word. Then the evidence from the Head Forensic Physician for the Victorian Police Force. Now you could not get a person more objective than a man who gives opinion for law enforcement could you - wrong. The accepted the evidence of an emergency department on call doctor whose specialty is anaesthesia over three that I submitted, a specialist Police forensic doctor, a specialist gyno and the Head Lecturer of the College of Nursing - an a specialist in womens health, all of whom stated that the vaginal abrasion - the only injury this woman suffered in a long, violent and protracted assault, all agreed was not from any type of penetration and was not one caused at the time of the alleged assault but was caused closer to the time of the examination. Now not only did the emergency department doctor breach all examination protocols but he did not conduct an internal examination (bearing in mind that there was evidence now that she spent the night with her partner the night before the examination) and the reason why was the complainant stated she was too sore. The experts that I put forward stated that there was no reason why she could not have an internal done and stated that she was not, on the evidence placed forward, dibilitated or disabled in any fashion after the alleged assault. They stated that if the complainant was too sore to be examined on Monday, then the injuries suffered on the night would have been so severe that she could not physically move - but the Court stated she was disabled as was her evidence. The sad thing was the evidence from her friends was that she had no physical injury, was not disabled, one stated she was on a stage dancing like a slut (this was in fact stated in Court) and the other stated she was dancing with six men, touching each others bodies and then walked 1.5km home, was not in pain, did not complain of any pain (and incidently was wearing tight pants with no underwear) and none of that evidence went anywhere either. The Judge hearing the application for review went to great pains to say that the evidence should have been submitted at trial and other evidence was irrelevant as it was hearsay -he agreed with the Crown Advocate that the evidence was inadmissible and threw out my application. I showed all and sun dry that this womans evidence was all lies - to the point where the Crown even submitted it to the highest level of the Crown for adjudication regarding perjury and yet I still have this stain. And everything that I write on here is documented and has been presented to the NSW Supreme Court. So sadly, the system would rather threw me to the sewer rather than admit that this woman lied. They all went to great pains to shoot me down and the only thing that will save me now is if she confesses. Now what are the chances of that. My fear, my greatest fear is that I will have this stain on my name forever. These records will last longer than me and it will say I am a rapist. Truth be known that scares me more than I can put into words. And this woman has no compunction whatsoever to put on a police officer's uniform and go to work, lock people up and know with every inch of her being that her lies put an innocent man in gaol.
They are not protecting her, they are protecting their own prominent positions and the perception given to the public that our, 'justice systems' work.
This club culture with them all protecting each others backs and banding together not to overturn convictions if humanly possibly is to protect this perception of justice and their own positions nothing more.
Unless you become caught up in the system you don't know its failings, so the billions of people in our Countries out there are kept in ignorance & its only through forums and such like we can get the message out. Fortunately the internet has been born and whilst it may not happen in my lifetime the tide is turning.
TO EVERYONE - WHENEVER YOU CAN, ON THE NET/in the NEWS, GET THE MESSAGE OUT THERE, OUR JUSTICE & POLICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT.