Hundreds of convictions in Australia in doubt after mob lawyer named as informant

And so swarms of scumbags will get away with it on a technicality. Watch Melbourne descend back in to gang war.

Mistakes were made by the police in the handeling of an informant, Royal Commission will sort out responsibility. Don't see how a new gang war will break out? The drug trade is now a different business then when these unsavoury types were in charge. And they are well known, the problem is not the evidence but the process used to gather it. See a transparent legal system with checks and balances works.

...It’s a jungle out there...

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I am surprised, but also not surprised. These guys were guilty... but if the law bends/breaks the law to get them... are not they just as bad.

The law is the law.

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No doubt

she was working as an informant between 2005-2009 -- kept in daily contact with her handlers

That takes some courage, particularly as a woman to do that for 4 years. Extreme risk.

I cant imagine the government or the police will allow this discovery to impact 600 cases. Take a decade to sort out.

Like Batman rogue Two-Face / lawyer Harvey Dent

Wow!

Seems to me that this informant likely has a high price on her head.

The prosecutors are burning the midnight oil double times to sort this mess out for sure.

The court will equally have trouble sorting evidence that is submit-able from the ones that are not for re-trial since the defendants were miss-represented with various evidence that were found violating client-attorney privilege which I do not think it is submit-able at court.

Was this woman informing the police of information she got from her clients? If so, then I don’t see how they could not have to retry them all. That would clearly be a miscarriage of justice