David Eastman: Australia; Retrial: (Aftermath 1): 'The Age' (Canberra Times) editorializes on "The far from compelling case against David Eastman."..."However, as the Martin inquiry established, he and his legal team were also the unwitting victims of unscrupulous police and prosecutor conduct, apparently borne of an unswerving certainty as to his guilt. For all that confidence, the evidence pointing to guilt beyond reasonable doubt was heavily circumstantial. The most incriminating piece of evidence was gunpowder residue found in Mr Eastman's car allegedly linked to the murder weapon, though this was never found. The discrediting of this theory has not, it seemed, given rise to any official doubts about Mr Eastman's innocence, but rather a determination that he be retried on the basis of new, as yet undisclosed, evidence."

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