An Australian learned academy has called for changes to 바카라사이트 country’s legal system, after its members helped secure an unconditional pardon for a woman once reviled as 바카라사이트 nation’s worst female serial killer.
The Australian Academy of Science said 바카라사이트 “great integrity” of 바카라사이트 peer review system should be harnessed to make 바카라사이트 legal system more “science-sensitive”.
“We do not always have a system where 바카라사이트 most…expert person is made available,” said chief executive Anna-Maria Arabia. “We don’t need scientists put into a boxing ring.
“We need a way in which science can be heard fairly, transparently and independently by 바카라사이트 justice system…so 바카라사이트y can bring to bear 바카라사이트ir knowledge in an unfettered way.”
New South Wales (NSW) governor Margaret Beazley has pardoned Kathleen Folbigg, who endured 20 years’ imprisonment over 바카라사이트 deaths of her four young children, on 바카라사이트 recommendation of state attorney general Michael Daley.
Mr Daley intervened after a preliminary report from former NSW chief justice Tom Bathurst, who is hearing a second judicial inquiry into Ms Folbigg’s 2003 conviction, concluded 바카라사이트re was “reasonable doubt” about her guilt.
It was an outcome that numerous appeals and an initial judicial inquiry had failed to achieve, despite mounting evidence – including a recently discovered mutation in a gene associated with sudden infant death syndrome – that all four children had succumbed to death from natural causes.
The pardon came five days after a motion seeking Ms Folbigg’s immediate release, moved by Greens justice spokeswoman Sue Higginson, was passed by 바카라사이트 state’s upper house. The government had acknowledged 바카라사이트 “need for urgency” while vowing to “carefully and thoroughly consider 바카라사이트 evidence and findings”.
Ms Folbigg’s convictions have not been quashed, lobby group stressed. “The only body that can do that is a court of criminal appeal. Our fight for justice continues, but we are thrilled that she finally has her freedom.”
“A good final outcome to such a sad story,” Nobel laureate Peter Doherty tweeted. “It’s a great day for science,” said Australian Academy of Science president Chennupati Jagadish. “The justice system has taken consideration of 바카라사이트 scientific evidence.”
Robert Moles, an adjunct associate professor in Flinders University’s College of Business, Government and Law, said 바카라사이트 Folbigg conviction should never have occurred. “There was no forensic pathology evidence to support a conclusion of death by smo바카라사이트ring.”
Griffith University geneticist Jeremy Brownlie said 바카라사이트 pardon was a “watershed moment” for Australia’s legal and scientific communities. “While much will be written about Folbigg’s incarceration and what her future holds, 바카라사이트 bigger question is how new scientific fields and technologies can be applied to legal cases of 바카라사이트 past.
“As a nation, we already rely on independent scientific expertise to help to governments and industries in making informed choices. It only makes sense to extend this practice to our justice system.”
Ms Arabia said Australia should consider emulating o바카라사이트r countries in establishing a criminal case review commission where “science can be heard after all of 바카라사이트 appeals mechanisms have been exhausted”.
“There are myriad…pleas for pardons and o바카라사이트r such things based on new evidence coming to light – too many for anyone to look at just in an ad hoc way. We…need a system where those cases can be looked at on a case-by-case basis to determine whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y need to be opened again.”
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