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Yesterday, the verdict of one of Australia’s most anticipated criminal trials was handed down.
Former professional rugby player and high school teacher Chris Dawson was found guilty of murdering his first wife Lynette in 1982.
As Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Rick Sarre writes, what makes the case so interesting is that it followed a popular podcast published in 2018, The Teacher’s Pet, in which journalist Hedley Thomas delved deep into the case.
Sarre writes that the podcast would “stray perilously close to being so prejudicial as to prevent the trial ever proceeding” but that the trial’s eventual verdict “is a clear victory for dogged investigative journalism”.
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Liam Petterson
Deputy Politics Editor
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Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
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