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Lord Herbert
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When commonsense has no currency ..
Aug 26th, 2016 at 6:08am
 
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Judges work their way through lists of every real and imagined exemption possible in an effort to excuse themselves for the blatant leniency of so many of their sentencing decisions.

Judges and magistrates famously confound the intelligence and commonsense of the average Australian with some of their idiotic leniency towards the arseholes who come before them in the courts.


""They get an understanding of just how hard the sentencing task is and just how dangerous it is to rely on that 500 word newspaper snippet where you don't have the background of the offender or full facts," he said.

"So it says it's dangerous to jump to conclusions on the information you get from the media."


Nonsense again.

In jury trials it's illegal for the 'background' of the person on trial to be revealed to the jury lest this prejudice their decision. The criminal history of the offender is only allowed to be revealed if the Defence lawyer uses something in his or her past to demonstrate good character - ie. The offender once worked for a charity organisation. This opens the door for the Prosecuter to then launch into an expose of the defendant's past criminal history.

Rather than have a professional apologist standing these lecturing the public on sentencing decisions - the reverse would be far more appropriate: A room full of judges and magistrates seated as an audience to a panel composed of Joe Blows and Jane Does lecturing them on how their sentencing decisions so often fall short of community expectations.


 
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