Lawyer X case: Australian criminals line up to appeal convictions
by Sarah Marsh from World news | The Guardian on (#4M070)
Forty cases may have been tainted by involvement of police informer Nicola Gobbo
More than a dozen of Australia's most high-profile criminals could have their convictions quashed after their lawyer was revealed to be a police informant.
At the end of the first trial related to the "Lawyer X" informant scandal, Faruk Orman was freed on Friday after serving 12 years in jail for the killing of a Melbourne crime figure.
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