The lawyer representing disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell insisted Tuesday he had not quit the cleric's legal team, denying media reports of his resignation.
"I have not quit," high profile barrister Robert Richter told AFP, adding that local media reports to the contrary were false. "I have not quit or left anything."
Richter told The Age that Pell would be "better served by someone more detached" as he did not have "sufficient objectivity at this stage."
"I think the man is an innocent man and he's been convicted. It's not a common experience."
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