PUBLIC PROSECUTORS – VICTORIA

Fears prompt thinning of the blue line

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Original article by Rania Spooner
The Age – Page: 4 : 15-Dec-14

A series of assaults have occurred in Victorian courts against police prosecutors, who in response have begun to appear in plain clothes rather than in uniform. The staff are not armed, and Police Association secretary Ron Iddles notes that the state’s WorkSafe authority has recommended boosting security at the Moorabbin Justice Centre. Victoria Police may soon deploy protective services officers, as the existing employees of private contractor Wilson Security at the facility lack arrest powers

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Chief prosecutor attacks ‘extreme’ sentencing laws

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Original article by Steve Butcher
The Age – Page: 8 : 20-Oct-14

Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark in August 2014 announced new baseline sentencing for serious offences. Supreme Court Chief Justice Marilyn Warren and County Court Chief judge Michael Rozenes criticised the move, and chief Crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert QC has now also labelled the Government’s decision an over-reaction and a dangerous path to a mandatory sentencing regime. However, he acknowledged that the often complex and obscure verdicts of a number of Court of Appeal judges had prompted the Government’s action

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Inquiry into botched kill case

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Original article by Tim Clarke, Amanda Banks
The West Australian – Page: 5 : 10-Jul-14

Western Australian Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has requested a Corruption & Crime Commission investigation into the conduct of some officers in Broome. Attorney-General Michael Mischin also wants to be briefed on the issue by the Director of Public Prosecutions, after a murder charge had to be downgraded to manslaughter and the accused was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser crime. The Supreme Court ruled that the police officers had repeatedly breached the law when they interviewed the suspect

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