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      Hitler's final rise to power ... Germany a democracy that handed power to someone who could never claim a majority in an election and whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown
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Tuesday
Jan122021

Mental health round-up

• DateTuesday, January 12, 2021
Solicitor fails to submit client's history of mental illness to sentencing judge in NSW ... Instead relies on character reference from Hillsong "youth leader" ... Schizophrenia ... Miscarriage of justice ... Tasmanian offender with borderline personality disorder ... Trial judge rapped for failing to suspend part of the sentence ... Brief sentencing comments in court ... Different and longer written version ... Michael Baker reports