UPDATE: High-profile barrister Robert Richter QC has not quit George Pell's legal team, despite prior reports. 9News
"I have not quit. I do not quit," he told AAP on Tuesday, following reports he claimed to be too emotionally involved in the case and angry at the jury's "perverse" verdict after the cardinal was found guilty of child abuse.
Pell's solicitor Paul Galbally said it was rare for Mr Richter, and many trial counsel, to continue with appeal cases.
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