Grub get's around 12 months for this...

[Road_Warrior]

On the subject of mandatory sentencing: the lawyer/legal fraternities and associations decry it because it "undermines the sanctity of the legal system" and "takes away the independence of the judiciary" and it demonstrates that "parliamentarians are out of touch with society" by introducing such legislation.

Now, if parliamentarians/governments are responding to public outrage over soft sentences for violent crimes by implementing mandatory sentencing, forcing the judiciary to take the public interest into account and set a baseline for what it considers an appropriate punishment for violent crime, who indeed is "out of touch with society?" Here's a hint: it's not the lawmakers.

[supershifty]

I don't know how the system works now on the sentencing in QLD. It's been a long time since I got myself in the slot (+25 years ago) - not going back there either.

At my time, if it was first time in the slot, your sentence was automatically reduced by a third of the judges penalty. So if you got 18 months, you actually served 12 months.

First time in the slot you would have to go to a maximum security prison for assessment as to your behaviour before going to somewhere else. If I remember correctly you served about 6 weeks in max security before being assessed as to what "risk" you were. If you were assessed as being "well behaved" then your sentence was further reduced by another third of the original, so thus I served 6 months of an 18 month sentence.

I'm not going to post up on a public forum about what I did, but the bastard's deserved what they got. Police were on my side. PM for details if you like - I was "interfered with" as a young lad and paid back hard when I was an adult.

The point I'm trying to make is that there's no proof in a judge's sentencing - they're constricted by the system that allows a dog act to go pretty well unpenalised.

Cheers!

[XBROO]

Sounds like you got your own justice supershifty, and I get what your saying. So even though they were for totally different reasons, they still fall under the same type of charge. Yours was payback and that grub for no apparent reason.

[GREGL]

For as long as I live I will NEVER understand why anyone kicks someone while their down .
Only in the wild does a predator prey on the weak and defenceless .
Mongrels like him need a needle just like the one they used in Alabama last week . Give them some time to reflect on the pain he put others through .
As they say the best part of him was the bit that ran down his mothers leg .

[flooded one]

tie him up and let the old blokes flog the git