Lleane Dominique Sun
AT2 Legal Studies – Case Study
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murder. Additionally, High Court upheld the conviction of the
Chamberlains in February 1984.
Post Trial Stage
The aftermath of the trial was that Lindy spent her years in the
prison. This continued for almost three years before Royal
Commission Inquiry led to the new evidences and seek pardon for
the wrongful conviction of Lindy (Kyriakakis, 2012). A petition with
131,000 signatures was presented for fresh inquiry into the case
and release of Lindy to the Governor General in the year 1984. As
the matinee jacket of the baby is recovered from the rock, fresh
inquiry is announced in the year 1986. Not only the convictions were
quashed against the couple in the year 1988, but later received a
compensation of $1.3 million on the fact that the evidence was
insubstantial. It was concluded that exact cause of the death of
baby couldn’t be determined in year 1995.
Wider implications from the case and the effectiveness of
the Criminal Justice System
As stated in the previous parts, the case is a significant instance in
the history of Australia in relation to the wrongful conviction of an
individual and the human cost of the same. One of the key issues
that arose in the case was the role of the media. The media trial of
the case was such that the specific commission of the court
drawings was done by the ABC Television, where court proceedings
were broadcast at afternoon 3.30 throughout Australia in the form of
National News (National Museum Australia , 2020). It is significant
to note that such broadcast would also extend at Darwin. As there
was time differences between the southern states and Darwin, real
time drawings of the court happenings would go in air before the
finish of the court sessions. Thus, while initially media played a role
against the Chamberlain, later on it played a central role in
highlighting the key lapses in the case.

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