Media editors used Pell reports to pressure judge, court told
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A âcalculated riskâ in early reports about George Pellâs sex assault conviction was, prosecutors argue, an attempt by media companies to pressure a judge into revoking a suppression order.
Fourteen news outlets, including
The Age and
The Sydney Morning Herald, have pleaded guilty to a combined 21 charges of contempt of court for breaching a suppression order over reports published or broadcast in December 2018, in the days after Cardinal Pell was found guilty.