An Australian has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of an American who fell to his death 35 years ago from a Sydney cliff top.
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Johnson’s Boston-based older brother Steve Johnson told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that Thursday’s proceedings “might be the most emotional moment yet.” The sibling had watched the Sydney court hearing online from the United States. “Reading the black and white of his confession, in which he states that he threw the first punch, which I imagine was the only punch and my brother must have been very close to the cliff ... makes me pretty angry,” Johnson said.
It was the third inquest into the tragedy following pressure from the family. A coroner had initially ruled in 1989 that the openly gay man had taken his own life, while a second coroner in 2012 could not explain how he died. White took his lawyers by surprise in January last year by pleading guilty to murder during a pretrial hearing.
In November, three judges of the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal in Sydney ruled that White should have been allowed to reverse his guilty plea, quashing his conviction and sentence.
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