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You've stopped someone carrying a large amount of drugs.

He's just a teenager.

He's exhausted, scared, not giving you his name, where he's from or where he's going.

He's broken the law, but maybe he really needs your help. So how'd you get him talking?

If you think you could be a regular or volunteer police constable, such met careers.

Change needs empathy. Change needs you.

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests. So please consider this your

warning that it's not suitable for children,

and it probably will contain content that may be triggering to some people.

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.

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. Lex Lassri is a guest we've been hunting since day one of Australian True Crime and we finally have him today.

Since graduating quite miraculously from law school in 1972, Lexus forged a mighty career. He acted both as prosecution and defense counsel. He was appointed a Queen's counsel in 1990 and then appointed to the bench

a queen's council 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. Rentakill 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

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