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| Subject: Rules don't matter in Wild Western OZschwitz - nor does a life Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:30 am | |
| This week the Western Australian director of public prosecutions, Joe McGrath, held a media briefing.
This is an unusual spectacle because prosecutors prefer to go about their decision-making as opaquely as possible.
McGrath's announcement was highly sensitive and would compound the distrust by Aboriginal Australians of whitey's ''justice''.
He announced that despite the findings of a coronial inquiry there would be no prosecution of any person who could be responsible for the death of an Aboriginal man who died in the back of a prison van in January 2008.
The deceased is Mr Ward. For cultural reasons his family doesn't wish his first name to be published, although it is there in the report of the coroner, Alastair Hope.
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