Stop it. The australian justice system is literally the worst in how it treats it's first nations people. You asked the boards if we thought she got leniency because she was a single aboriginal female. That seems unlikely, since your system routinely railroads that -exact- cohort.
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Australia's Broken Jurisprudence System...
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And the the judicial inefficiencies, public disregard for our
laws and the police, and our slack attitudes to youth criminal behaviour continues unabated. In short: New crime statistics show offences by children aged 14-17 rose by 30% last year. It was the highest rate of offending by that age group since 2009. The Victorian Chief Commissioner of police blamed the increase on young people seeking notoriety, saying the increase was the highest rate of offending in that age group since 2009. Crimes committed by 10- to 13-year-olds rose by 22.5% and offences by 10- and 11-year-olds rose by 65%. There were 3,426 alleged child offenders between the ages of 10- to 14-year-olds accused of property offences including aggravated burglary; a rise of 16% compared to the previous calendar year. In the 15- to 17-year-olds age group, there was a 44% increase when it came to teenagers accused of property offences. —I put these crime figures down to soft-cock magistrates who grant bail, sometimes multiple times(!) to too many of these young career criminals. Quote:In Victoria, Australia, the Bail Act 1977 governs bail, allowing arrested—Furstenberg Law Melbourne 2024. Nope. A bail breach seldom ever results in the custody of the offender. One young offender that caused a motor vehicle death recently had previously been granted—and broken—bail three times, only to be granted bail a fourth time(!) by some limp dick magistrate. I'm a creationist; I believe that man created God.
(06-16-2024, 03:28 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: Stop it. The Australian justice system is literally the worst in how it treats it's first nations people. You asked the boards if we thought she got leniency because she was a single aboriginal female. That seems unlikely, since your system routinely railroads that -exact- cohort. I'm guessing you don't know much about our judicial system in Australia, or how we treat our indigenes? A Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody drew attention to the fact that the rate of imprisonment of Indigenous Australians was 13 times higher than the corresponding rate for non-Indigenous Australians. Efforts to reduce Indigenous imprisonment rates met with little success. In fact, over the last few years, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment has increased. The research reported here had two main objectives. The first was to determine whether there is any evidence of racial bias in the sentencing of Indigenous offenders. The second was to determine what other factors account for the higher proportion of Indigenous offenders sentenced to terms of imprisonment. The research revealed no evidence of racial bias in sentencing. The higher rate at which Indigenous offenders are sent to prison stems mainly from (a) a higher rate of conviction for violent crime and (b) a higher rate of re-offending, particularly following the imposition of sanctions intended as alternatives to full-time imprisonment. I'm a creationist; I believe that man created God.
It's amazing, isn't it? Our government also makes such claims. I don't believe them, and your governments rate is a little more than twice our own for african americans. It seems to me like this is a good example of how your system may be broken.
This is another classic example of the failure of
Australia's judiciary to penalise criminal activities with appropriate sentencing. In this case, the term of imprisonment for dangerous driving causing death, plus associated assault of a police officer, and drug charges was manifestly unjust. A woman has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for falling asleep while drug driving, drifting into oncoming traffic, and killing the passenger of another vehicle. She then fled the scene. Storm Cecilia Tientjes filmed herself smoking cannabis while in the driver's seat and had been awake all night before the crash. She has never held a driver's licence, her car was unregistered, and it had stolen number plates. The sentencing judge said said Tientjes had shown "genuine remorse", expressed a desire to reform her life, re-establish contact with her child, and to begin studies. The judge said the sentence "must reflect the sanctity of human life and the terrible harm that has been caused", but then—almost laughably, in the same breath—sentenced Tientjes to 3½ years jail with a 21-month non-parole period. I'm a creationist; I believe that man created God.
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