we are being taken over by the deadbeats.. the PC mob have a lot to answer for...
here is another case if our SO CALLED TRUSTED LAW SOCIETY.. working for us all...
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/judges-criticised-for-outrageous-leni...A judge has been slammed for an “outrageous” morning of leniency in which he slashed prison terms for two high-range drink drivers — one of whom crashed his car on a booze run after consuming a bottle of scotch in two hours — and quashed the conviction of a wedding guest who blew mid-range.
The guest, Jane Clark, 60, was caught weaving across the centre line of the road near Orange Police Station after deciding to drive 200m to her motel because it was a warm evening, she was wearing heels and a wedding outfit, acting District Court Greg Hosking was told.
“I have seen worse,” the judge said on Tuesday after being told she had lengthy driving record mainly for speeding.
Jane Clarke (left) leaves Downing Centre Court with daughter Poppy. Picture: Dylan Robinson
Then there was tradie Jose Bustamente, 69, who had downed a morning bottle of Chivas Regal scotch before being jailed for his fifth drink-driving offence and already banned from driving until 2031. He had his non-parole period more than halved to four months.
The Centrelink pensioner will get out of jail next month.
Acting Judge Hosking said he would apply “special circumstances” because it was Bustamente’s first time in jail. Records show the furniture removalist had been sentenced to seven months behind bars in 2016 after being declared a habitual drink driving offender.
The third person to successfully appeal on Tuesday was the mother who created traffic chaos two weeks before Christmas on the Sydney Harbour Bridge with her two screaming children in the back of the car as she wove onto the wrong side of the road after downing an entire bottle of vodka.
Jailed for 11 months with a non-parole period of six months two weeks ago, Acting Judge Hosking freed the 41-year-old on the spot.
“I think full-time imprisonment … is too harsh,” he told her as she sobbed appearing in court via videolink. “It must have been a nightmare for you.”
‘SORBENT SOFT’
Pedestrian Council of Australia chief Harold Scruby said on Wednesday these kind of decisions “dumbed down” the seriousness of drink-driving.
“It is outrageous,” Mr Scruby said.
“These judges are Sorbent four-ply soft on drink driving. The police get terribly demoralised by these decisions.
Mr Scruby said the government’s recent clampdown on low-range drink drivers — with 280 losing their licences on the spot since the tough new penalties were introduced last month — signalled how the community viewed drivers who put others at risk through their behaviour.
The most recent court figures reveal that about a quarter of drink drivers overall who appeal both their conviction and sentence win.
Nineteen per cent of the 21 high-range drivers who appealed their convictions and sentence also had a win, according to the 2015 figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
DEADLY TOLL
The most recent Office of Road Safety figures for 2017 show alcohol was involved in 51 out of 351 fatal crashes and 354 out of 5430 serious injury crashes. From these crashes there were 55 persons killed and 429 persons seriously injured — representing 14 per cent of all fatalities and 7 per cent of all serious injuries in 2017.
Provisional data for 2018 indicate there were 354 fatalities, of which 68 — or 19 per cent — were from alcohol-related crashes. Of the 332 fatal crashes for that year, 58 of them — or 18 per cent — involved alcohol.
“We are taking a zero-tolerance approach to drink and drug driving,” said Transport minister Andrew Constance, who introduced the tough low-range measures last month.
“Drivers who have an illegal level of alcohol in their blood or have used illegal drugs have no place on the road.
“This is about saving lives. There are no more excuses.”
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