Cardinal and sex offender George Pell could be a step closer to freedom as prosecutors get off to a less than confident start in their bid to keep him caged. A disheveled Pell arrived at court on Thursday ahead of prosecutors defending a jury decision to convict him for sexually abusing two teenage choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990s.But if Pell had a nervous sleep last night, his spirits surely lifted as Crown prosecutor Chris Boyce QC took to his feet to address the Court of Appeal. Mr Boyce has taken over the heavy lifting from Mark Gibson QC, who secured a conviction against the Cardinal at his County Court trial. Cardinal George Pell arrives at the Supreme Court of Victoria on June 6 to appeal his convictions for child sexual abuseIn an animated display. Mr Boyce has stumbled through his opening submissions to the court. At one point, the hearing was halted after the prosecutor named Pell's victim in open court. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next George Pell cracks a smile after a powerful performance by... A defiant Cardinal George Pell is back in black and... Share this article Share Under the law, naming of sex abuse victims is strictly forbidden to be aired in public. The hearing is being streamed live to the world on a 15 second delay, which spared the worried victim being outed. Mr Boyce was warned to keep the victim's name out of his future public submissions. Continuing, Mr Boyce was repeatedly asked to explain himself more thoroughly and was criticised for speculating on what Pell's jury might have been thinking. At one stage, the prosecutor conceded he was a bit muddled. 'The point I'm making, and I don't think extremely well,' he said. 'Is the point your honour is making.' The prosecution's delivery comes a day after Pell's defence team made its bid to have the 77-year-old acquitted on five charges.Pell is serving a minimum three years and eight months behind bars after being sentenced to up to six years in prison in March.A confident Bret Walker SC, for Pell, told the court in the first day of the appeal application and hearing that it was 'impossible' for his client to have abused the boys at St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996, and have molested one of them again in early 1997. Cardinal and sex offender George Pell's bid for freedom continues on Thursday as prosecutors defend a jury's decision to convict him for sexually abusing two teenage choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990sA clearly pleased Pell was left smiling by the end of the day as his barrister pointed out all of the ways he was innocent of the crimes he had been found guilty of. The jury's verdicts were 'unsafe and unsatisfactory' on the basis of evidence from one surviving complainant in the face of exculpatory evidence from 20 others called by prosecutors, Mr Walker told the court.Among the evidence was an alibi in Pell's practice of greeting parishioners outside the cathedral after mass, he told Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Ferguson, Court of Appeal
Dishevelled-looking George Pell arrives at court in handcuffs
Cardinal and sex offender George Pell could be a step closer to freedom as prosecutors get off to a less than confident start in their bid to keep him caged. A disheveled Pell arrived at court on Thursday ahead of prosecutors defending a jury decision to convict him for sexually abusing two teenage choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990s.But if Pell had a nervous sleep last night, his spirits surely lifted as Crown prosecutor Chris Boyce QC took to his feet to address the Court of Appeal. Mr Boyce has taken over the heavy lifting from Mark Gibson QC, who secured a conviction against the Cardinal at his County Court trial. Cardinal George Pell arrives at the Supreme Court of Victoria on June 6 to appeal his convictions for child sexual abuseIn an animated display. Mr Boyce has stumbled through his opening submissions to the court. At one point, the hearing was halted after the prosecutor named Pell's victim in open court. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next George Pell cracks a smile after a powerful performance by... A defiant Cardinal George Pell is back in black and... Share this article Share Under the law, naming of sex abuse victims is strictly forbidden to be aired in public. The hearing is being streamed live to the world on a 15 second delay, which spared the worried victim being outed. Mr Boyce was warned to keep the victim's name out of his future public submissions. Continuing, Mr Boyce was repeatedly asked to explain himself more thoroughly and was criticised for speculating on what Pell's jury might have been thinking. At one stage, the prosecutor conceded he was a bit muddled. 'The point I'm making, and I don't think extremely well,' he said. 'Is the point your honour is making.' The prosecution's delivery comes a day after Pell's defence team made its bid to have the 77-year-old acquitted on five charges.Pell is serving a minimum three years and eight months behind bars after being sentenced to up to six years in prison in March.A confident Bret Walker SC, for Pell, told the court in the first day of the appeal application and hearing that it was 'impossible' for his client to have abused the boys at St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996, and have molested one of them again in early 1997. Cardinal and sex offender George Pell's bid for freedom continues on Thursday as prosecutors defend a jury's decision to convict him for sexually abusing two teenage choirboys in Melbourne in the 1990sA clearly pleased Pell was left smiling by the end of the day as his barrister pointed out all of the ways he was innocent of the crimes he had been found guilty of. The jury's verdicts were 'unsafe and unsatisfactory' on the basis of evidence from one surviving complainant in the face of exculpatory evidence from 20 others called by prosecutors, Mr Walker told the court.Among the evidence was an alibi in Pell's practice of greeting parishioners outside the cathedral after mass, he told Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Ferguson, Court of Appeal
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