Pell crashes the High Court's website
As confusion reigned on what the referral to the full bench meant, the servers just buckled under the strain of the strong interest in the case.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The High Court overturned Cardinal George Pell's conviction for historical child sex offences in a judgment handed down April 7, 2020. In a unanimous decision, all seven High Court judges found Victoria's Court of Appeal should not have upheld Pell's conviction It found the evidence could not support a guilty verdict.
The intense interest in the George Pell appeal decision on Wednesday caused the High Court's website to buckle under the strain.
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