CTV News is reporting that hundreds of people showed up outside BC Provincial court earlier this month calling for a judge to be fired after he gave a teen convicted of aggravated sexual assault to just two weeks in prison. It's pretty much a no brainer. Judges are paid by the public and if they betray the public trust they need to be removed. The defiant arrogance needs to end.
Harold Munro folds like a cheap tent
"The sentence in this case included a three-year custody and supervision order, which was the maximum term that could be imposed. It included two weeks in custody and three years under supervision in the community, which can be reverted to a further jail sentence if the young person breaches any of the conditions while under supervision."
ReplyDeleteThat judge was fully capable of sentencing the offender to 3 years. 2 weeks is a joke, and offensive to the cause of justice.
Indeed, the three year probation may have been the maximum probation but the two week sentence was not.
DeleteI think the judge determines how much of the three years is custody and how much is supervised release?
ReplyDeleteYes and as you previously pointed out the judge was fully capable of giving him a longer sentence.
DeleteI'm actually surprised there isn't more of taking justice into one's own hands, if it was my daughter that kid's DNA would be clorox'ed from the gene pool....IF they can prove it, stumblef**ks that they are, what do I get, a couple of years? Worth it. And they would take 3-4 years at least to actually get through a jury trial, where maybe they vote not guilty "just because". "Jury nullification".
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