AUSTRALIA
9 News
By Mark Saunokonoko
Jul 11, 2017
The top Melbourne lawyer handpicked by Cardinal George Pell comes to the sexual abuse case with a formidable courtroom reputation and a history of defending some of Australia’s most unpopular people.
Robert Richter, QC, most famously convinced a jury that Mick Gatto’s 2004 shooting of hitman Andrew “Benji” Veniamin in a Melbourne restaurant was self-defence, and not murder.
So delighted was “Big Mick” with his murder acquittal he went and tattooed the name “Robert Richter” across his chest.
Several Victorian lawyers contacted by Nine.com.au proclaimed the 71-year-old Richter, also known as “The Red Baron”, as one of the most gifted defenders in Australia.
“He is the Rolls Royce of criminal defence lawyers,” George Balot, a high-profile Melbourne solicitor who has worked alongside Richter, told Nine.com.au.
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