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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 17, 1969
Page
2
In Canberra the ACT Supreme Court heard an application by Carmen Danielle Green seeking quashing of the Agents Board decision on September 17, 1969, denying her registration as a real estate agent. Justice Fox reserved judgment after yesterday’s hearings.
In Sydney the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed life sentences after hearings into a complex case. Maxwell John Williams and co-defendants faced prolonged imprisonment while appeals by his wife Joy Ellen Williams, Ronald Henry Thomas, and Daniel Michael Clark were dismissed. The proceedings involved negligent behavior and questioned measures by authorities and the handling of alleged drug and import offenses. The lead man, Williams, is to be freed, while the rest remain jailed to complete their prior sentences.
A Brunswick woman, Mrs Audrey May Picken, 36, was acquitted by a Criminal Court jury of murder in the stabbing death of her husband Leslie John Picken, 18, and also found not guilty of manslaughter. The jury accepted her claim of self defense following a violent attack.
Ten people were remanded on bail today in Central Court over charges stemming from a Sydney anti-Vietnam War demonstration last night. Eight men and two women faced counts from indecent language to assaulting police and resisting arrest. Me M. Farquhar remanded them on bail for 40 dates in January and February.
The coroner told the court that a one year old girl hanged herself with a red ribbon tied to her cot. Coroner H W Pascoe ruled there was no indication the act was dangerous or intentional. Kathleen Wise recalled the red ribbon and bell had been kept as a keepsake for her first child.
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