SIO235: Cardinal Pell Wins on Appeal
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It has been about a year since we talked about the charges against Cardinal Pell for sex crimes against minors, and now he has won on appeal to the highest court in Australia. This sounds like terrible news, but Andrew Torrez and Australian lawyer James Rogers are here to break it down for us! It's an Opening Arguments crossover spectacular!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to the great crossover event. Serious Inquiries on the opening arguments crossover. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Thomas of course. |
| 0:36.3 | How's it going Andrew? |
| 0:37.3 | It is going fantastic, Thomas. |
| 0:39.8 | You've got your peanut butter in my chocolate. |
| 0:41.8 | Well, I don't know how I did that with social distancing, |
| 0:44.1 | but we're also joined by a special guest, James Rogers. |
| 0:47.2 | How are you doing, James? |
| 0:48.2 | Good, good. |
| 0:48.8 | How are you guys? |
| 0:50.3 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:51.0 | Andrew always says he's fantastic, but I feel like the news was maybe like not as fantastic this week, but we'll see. |
| 0:57.0 | So we've got so much to, I'll do a little bit of explanation for what we're doing here because we have so much going on |
| 1:04.6 | over at opening arguments. There's this was a major newsweek but we also wanted to |
| 1:08.9 | cover this George Pell News, Cardinal Pell News, but also since I had done an episode on SIO about George |
| 1:18.1 | Pell back before when, you know, when, before whatever just happened happened happened we'll say that and so it made |
| 1:26.2 | sense to do a follow-up and do a little crossover event and so thankful for both of |
| 1:30.8 | you for for being here but as I've alluded to, the news doesn't seem good to me. Maybe |
| 1:36.7 | there will be some spin on it. Maybe James will do his best Andrew impression |
| 1:41.2 | and tell us why this is okay even though it seems like it's not or maybe it's just not we'll find out |
| 1:45.9 | but in either case James why don't you go ahead and maybe give a brief introduction to who you are and |
| 1:52.1 | so listeners can get to know you and then we'll |
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