Rockstar, Race Car Driver, Supreme Court Judge: Lex Lasry
Australian True Crime
Bravecasting
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Lex Lasry is a guest we've been hunting since day one of Australian True Crime.
Since graduating quite miraculously from law school in 1972, Lex has forged a mighty career. He acted both as prosecution and defence counsel, he was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1990 and then appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2007.
In his various capacities, Lex has been a central figure in some of this country's most high profile cases, from a failed attempt to prosecute Mr. Rent-A-Kill, Christopher Flannery for murder to the demise of the feared Painters and Dockers Union. From advocating for so-called Australian Taliban, David Hicks, to the controversial case that turned out to be his last, the 2020 Eastern Freeway crash that saw four police members struck and killed by a truck driver under the influence of drugs.
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CREDITS:
Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram
Guest: The Honourable Justice Lex Lasry AM
Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard
This episode contains extra content from Channel 10 and The ABC.
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| 0:15.0 | You've stopped someone carrying a large amount of drugs. |
| 0:20.0 | He's just a teenager. |
| 0:22.0 | He's exhausted, scared, not giving you his name, where he's from or where he's going. |
| 0:29.6 | He's broken the law, but maybe he really needs your help. So how'd you get him talking? |
| 0:36.9 | If you think you could be a regular or volunteer police constable, such met careers. |
| 0:42.0 | Change needs empathy. Change needs you. |
| 0:47.8 | This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. So please consider this your |
| 0:52.3 | warning that it's not suitable for |
| 0:54.0 | children and it probably will contain content that may be triggering to some people. |
| 0:58.1 | Also it's an Australian true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people. |
| 1:09.0 | The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 1:20.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 1:27.0 | If you're dealing with someone who's been found guilty of a vicious murder, then the gap's pretty narrow really. |
| 1:37.0 | It's not as though it's jail or not jail. It's just a question of how long. |
| 1:41.0 | So in the end, however sorry you feel for someone, it's |
| 1:44.7 | no fun sentencing a young offender, but in the end the choice really isn't open to |
| 1:49.7 | the judge to say, oh well, he's a young offender, he's probably got some potential, so he can go, and let's hope |
| 1:56.1 | that it all works out. Sentences have to be imposed at four within a particular framework, |
| 2:01.0 | and that's what we do. |
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