County Court Judge Barbera Cottrell overturned earlier perjury convictions against Stephen Linnell, former media director of Victoria Police . A Melbourne magistrate accepted Linnell's guilty plea to three charges of perjury to the state of Victoria's Office of Police Integrity (OPI) in 2008. Linnell was sentenced to eight months in a corrective facility, suspension from the police department, and fined AS 5,000. The investigation into Linnell, led by the OPI, came about over allegations of information leaks compromising critical operation of murder investigations. Legal technicalities – such as the former head of the OPI investigation being unable to administer legal oaths – resulted in the gathered evidence being inadmissible.
County Court Judge Barbera Cottrell overturned earlier convictions against Stephen Linnell, former media director of . A Melbourne magistrate accepted Linnell's guilty plea to three charges of perjury to the state of Victoria's (OPI) in 2008. Linnell was sentenced to eight months in a corrective facility, suspension from the police department, and fined 5,000. The investigation into Linnell, led by the OPI, came about over allegations of information leaks compromising critical operation of murder investigations. Legal technicalities — such as the former head of the OPI investigation being unable to administer legal oaths — resulted in the gathered evidence being inadmissible.
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