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  Azaria Chamberlain disappearance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (June 11, 1980 - August 17, 1980) was born at the Mount Isa Maternity Hospital in Australia, daughter of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain.
The defence's case was rejected by the jury and Lindy Chamberlain was convicted of murder on 29 October 1982 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Chamberlain, but most critics were silenced by Streep's performance, and by Lindy herself, who commended the movie for its accuracy and praised Streep highly for her portrayal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain_disappearance   (2917 words)

  
 Azaria Chamberlain - Simple English Wikipedia
Azaria Chamberlain is the name of a baby that went missing in 1980 near Ayers Rock in Australia.
Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, said that she was taken by a dingo and killed.
Some aborigines said that Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo, but she was not killed, and they looked after her for a while.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azaria_Chamberlain   (332 words)

  
 Coroner's Inquest in the Lindy Chamberlain Case 1995
In relation to the involvement of the Chamberlains in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, I have reached the same conclusion as Commissioner Morling: the only difference is that the Commissioner was applying the criminal standard of proof whereas I have applied the civil standard of proof on the balance of probabilities.
Chamberlain to the presumption of innocence "with which the law clothes all persons unless and until their guilt has been proved beyond reasonable doubt" (See the judgment of Asche CJ at 241).
Chamberlain does not theoretically bar the institution of civil proceedings based on the same set of facts, which led to their ultimate acquittal (though in practical terms, the particular circumstances of the case do not lend themselves to such subsequent litigation).
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/chamberlain/lowndesreport.html   (4114 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chamberlain v. Skylink   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Skylink case is a case known for being one of the first uses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as a prosecution aid in a copyright case, setting the boundaries and limitations of the controversial act.
Chamberlain, a company known for automated door and gate openers, claimed that Skylink's Model 39 Universal GDO Transmitter infringed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Chamberlain claimed that the reverse engineering of a rolling-code system constituted a violation of the DMCA, complaining that the Skylink universal remotes circumvent "technical measures" initiated in the original remotes.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Chamberlain_v._Skylink   (479 words)

  
 Today Tonight on Seven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Azaria Chamberlain's father Michael says he has one memory that could support new claims the dingo that took his baby was later seen and shot. More...
Azaria Chamberlain's father Michael says he has one memory that could support new claims the dingo that took his baby was later seen and shot.
Despite this Lindy Chamberlain was later jailed for killing Azaria, and her husband Michael was found guilty of being an accessory.
www.seven.com.au /todaytonight/story/azaria   (878 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Australia/Antarctica / Australia Baby Death Mystery Back in the Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The baffling case of Azaria Chamberlain, who vanished in the Australian outback 24 years ago, apparently snatched by a dingo, is back in the spotlight after an old man said he saw the baby's body in the animal's jaws.
Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain said she saw a dingo, or wild dog, run off with her nine-week-old daughter in its mouth on the night of August 17, 1980.
Chamberlain was found guilty of murdering her daughter in 1982 and jailed for life but her conviction was quashed in 1988.
www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2004/07/09/australia_baby_death_mystery_back_in_the_spotlight?mode=PF   (678 words)

  
 Law Abstracts Cunliffe
I argue that each of these factors influenced the jury's decision to convict Chamberlain but that each factor and the outcome of the case was also affected by the jury's assessment of Chamberlain as a mother.
The Crown presented Chamberlain as a murdering mother, whose strange behaviour after Azaria's disappearance could be attributed to her guilt.
Chamberlain presented her own view of herself as innocent yet angry at the misappropriation of her daughter's memory and at the damage that the legal process and media attention had inflicted on her family.
www.library.ubc.ca /law/abstracts/cunliffe.html   (424 words)

  
 National Museum of Australia - Azaria Chamberlain's dress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
An initial inquest agreed with the Chamberlains' statement that a dingo had entered the family tent and taken the baby, but a subsequent trial found Lindy Chamberlain guilty of the murder of her child.
Mrs Chamberlain was imprisoned for three years before further investigations and legal proceedings eventually cleared her and her husband Michael of any connection with the disappearance of their daughter.
The collection includes courtroom sketches from the Chamberlain trial, camping equipment (including tent pegs that were submitted as evidence), the parka worn by Lindy at the camp site and part of the dashboard that was used as forensic evidence.
www.nma.gov.au /exhibitions/now_showing/captivating_and_curious/the_stories_behind_the_objects/azaria_chamberlains_dress/print_index.html   (601 words)

  
 Azaria Chamberlain, Lindy Chamberlain, Michael Chamberlain, dingo, dingoes, Australia, Ayres Rock, Alice Springs, ...
The finding being that "the convictions having been wiped away, the law of the land holds the Chamberlains to be innocent." The Chamberlains emerged from the courthouse in triumph with smiles and Michael's victory sign.
In December 1995, the Chamberlains again went to court to in an attempt to finalise the incomplete inquest of 1982.
It was this same lack of official documentation that had prevented the Chamberlains from referring to past cases during the first and second inquests into their daughter's death.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/not_guilty/chamberlain3/4.html   (911 words)

  
 The Trial of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain: A Commentary
Chamberlain's story and noted nothing about her appearance and conduct suggesting that she had suddenly killed her daughter." Morling concluded, "I am far from being persuaded that Mrs.
Chamberlain's account of having seen a dingo near the tent was false" and that "if the evidence before the Commission had been given at the trial, the trial judge would have been obliged to direct the jury to acquit the Chamberlains."
Among those invited by the Chamberlains were defense witnesses and lawyers, a couple whose daughter was taken from their car by a dingo, and journalists and politicians who had supported them during their long ordeal.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/chamberlain/chamberlainaccount.html   (4352 words)

  
 The Royal Society of NSW
The argument that developed during the trial was whether or not the results of the tests conducted on the Chamberlains' items could be taken as demonstrating the presence of foetal haemoglobin and, therefore, bloodstains from an infant.
This talk presents the scientific evidence used against the Chamberlains; the opposing interpretations of this evidence; the task of obtaining support from world scientific authorities against the trial verdict; and the further evidence adduced during the Royal Commission in 1986.
Professor Boettcher presented the scientific evidence used against the Chamberlains; the opposing interpretations of this evidence; the task of obtaining support from world scientific authorities against the trial verdict; and the further evidence adduced during the Royal Commission in 1986.
nsw.royalsoc.org.au /talks_2003/talk_Oct2003.html   (644 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 13 | 1982: Dingo baby trial opens in Australia
Lindy Chamberlain, who is seven months pregnant, is accused of slitting Azaria's throat as she sat in the front seat of the family car at a campsite at Ayers Rock.
Prosecutor Ian Barker told the court Mrs Chamberlain's story that her baby had been taken from the couple's tent by a dingo was a "fanciful lie to conceal the truth".
Lindy Chamberlain's sentence was seen as very harsh and even senior legal experts in Australia questioned whether she had been found guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/13/newsid_3638000/3638248.stm   (637 words)

  
 Azariah Story3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Chamberlain case was his first criminal case in private practice; and he seemed to have no idea what to do.
This charge would be conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, by concealing the identity of the dingo which took Azaria Chamberlain from her tent.
Throughout the two inquiries and the court trial, Lindy Chamberlain had maintained that, before laying Azaria in her “carry bed,” she had placed a terrycloth jumpsuit on her and, then, a matinee jacket over that.
www.sdadefend.com /azariah-story3.htm   (6671 words)

  
 Harrymmiller.com.au - Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
On 17 August 1980, while on a family holiday, nine week old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo from a camping ground near Ayers Rock.
After two inquests and a police raid on her house, Lindy Chamberlain was tried and convicted of the murder of her baby daughter.
Lindy's fourth child Kahlia Shonell Nikari Chamberlain was born on 17 November 1982 in Darwin Hospital while Lindy was in the custody of Darwin Prison.
www.harrymmiller.com.au /Lindy_Chamberlain.html   (573 words)

  
 Man, 87, says he shot baby-snatching dingo | Arizona Daily Star ®
Two-month-old Azaria disappeared from a campsite near the giant Ayers Rock monolith, also known by its Aboriginal name, Uluru, in 1980.
Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, now remarried and known as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, was convicted of murdering her infant but was later released from prison and cleared of the crime after fresh evidence supported her claim that a dingo took the child.
Azaria was the first recorded fatality attributed to a dingo attack in Australia, and there has been only one fatal dingo attack since.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/28777   (547 words)

  
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Azaria’s mother, Alice “LindyChamberlain, claimed that she had seen a dingo take her baby, and investigations centred on that theory until media stories began to depict Lindy herself as a possible suspect in Azaria’s disappearance.
Pressure from external influences took its toll on the case, and Lindy was convicted of the murder of Azaria through convincing scientific evidence, with her husband Michael convicted of being an accessory after the fact.
One piece of evidence that was particularly instrumental in convincing the jury that Lindy Chamberlain had killed her daughter in the car with a pair of scissors, and that she had therefore fabricated the story of a dingo taking her baby, was provided by the biologist on the case.
www.clpex.com /Articles/QualityinAustralianForensicScience.htm   (3727 words)

  
 Lindy Chamberlain: Nation, Law, Memory
These were explored in her article, "The Azaria Chamberlain case and questions of infanticide," Australian Journal of Cultural Studies, 4:2, 1987.
His The Azaria Chamberlain Case: Reflections on Australian Identity (Brisbane: University of Queensland, 1989) was first published in England and confirmed the international interest in the case.
Professor Graham Seal, Curtin University, wrote 'Azaria Chamberlain and the media charivari: a case study of the folklore process,' in Australian Folklore, 1, 1987, an account that documented the jokes, rhymes and unusual manifestations of public behaviour that emerged during the Chamberlain case.
www.scmp.mq.edu.au /chamberlain/speakers.html   (1097 words)

  
 News in Science - DNA could settle Azaria case - 16/08/2005
Lindy Chamberlain had already spent three years of a life sentence in jail for the murder of her nine-week-old.
And six hairs found in the tent where Azaria had been sleeping were identified as cat hairs during her trial but were in fact canine hairs.
While Taylor acknowledges that the trial of Lindy Chamberlain may have given forensics a bad name, it also dragged Australian forensic science forward, particularly in terms of uniting what he says was an ad hoc and poorly co-ordinated discipline at the time.
www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1437907.htm   (560 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Australia/Antarctica / Man says he shot dingo that snatched baby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Lindy Chamberlain, who served four years in prison after being convicted of murder in 1982 and before being cleared of the killing, said through a spokeswoman on Sunday that she was aware of Cole's claims and believed they were a matter for police.
Paul Everingham, who was political leader of the Northern Territory province where Azaria went missing, said he doubted the claim.
The story of Azaria's disappearance already was made into a 1988 Hollywood movie, "A Cry in the Dark," starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill.
www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2004/07/05/man_says_he_shot_dingo_that_snatched_baby   (749 words)

  
 THE AZARIA CHAMBERLAIN MYSTERY - Download complete thread
Now with the Jaket and clothes what you have to remember is that the 4 men that night who were too much of cowards to take Azaria back to the arms of her mother so obviously can't be human, Mr Cole was the one who bruried the clothes and has atmitted to it!.
i believe mrs chamberlain is not guilty the poor mother gets accused for her own new born babys loss and goes to jail....
So far my opinion is quite undecided and I would not completely rule out Lindy Chamberlain or the dingoe but I do believe that this bloke from Victoria is full of shit and is only trying to scrape in a few dollars and get his name in the news (as he has exceptionally succeeded at).
us.altnews.com.au /w-agora/download_thread.php?site=dingoinnocent&bn=dingoinnocent_discussion&thread=1038363064   (3925 words)

  
 A Cry in the Dark
Much was read into the supposed meaning of the name "Azaria," such as "sacrificed in the wilderness." Lurid tabloid stories even portrayed Lindy as a witch and her fellow Adventists as devil-worshippers.
Media interest in the Chamberlain case was unprecedented, and television cameras were allowed in the courtroom to cover the murder trial in 1982.
The Chamberlains were not only victims of a flagrant misprision of justice, which Lindy's release from gaol did something, however small, to redress, they were condemned just as ruthlessly by the public.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/cry.html   (1264 words)

  
 Police reject woman's Azaria claims - National - theage.com.au
Northern Territory police have rejected a woman's claim that she is Azaria Chamberlain.
Nine-week-old Azaria disappeared from a tent while her family was on a camping holiday at Uluru on August 17, 1980.
Her former husband Michael Chamberlain received a suspended sentence after he was convicted of being an accessary after the fact, which was also later quashed.
www.theage.com.au /news/national/police-reject-womans-azaria-claims/2005/08/26/1124563014892.html?from=moreStories   (347 words)

  
 azaria chamberlain
Producers of an upcoming movie about the death of Azaria Chamberlain knew of a Melbourne man's claims to have found the nine-and-a-half-week-old baby's body, but chose not to include them in the film.
Frank Cole, 78, claims Azaria's body may be buried in a Melbourne backyard, but yesterday some of his claims were already being contradicted.
Azaria Chamberlain's parents say there is a ring of truth to the story of a man who claims he and four mates found their baby in a dingo's jaws 24 years ago.
cracker.com.au /viewthread.aspx?threadid=4697&categoryid=11295   (903 words)

  
 Cry in the Dark case revived by claim man shot dingo with baby in its jaws - THR
Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was convicted of murdering the infant, but later released from prison and cleared of the crime after fresh evidence supported her claim that a dingo took the child.
Ms Chamberlain, who served four years in prison after being convicted of murder in 1982 before being cleared of the killing, said through a spokeswoman that she was aware of Mr Cole’s claims and believed they were a matter for the police.
The story of Azaria’s disappearance was made into a 1988 Hollywood film, A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and Sam Neill.
www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=90575   (699 words)

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