Cook goes free

ACT Courts come up with the goods again. I wish I was on their wicket. Good pay, work 2 hours per day and no accountability.

G

“I suspect DPP didnt do too much thinking since they were getting a guilty plea”

The DPP (both ACT and Commonwealth) are so overworked that this would not surprise me at all. Not that they do not care, but they simply would have prioritised to another case that had plead ‘not guilty’

Funny – six months ago (before PC types jumped on the Van Nguyen band wagon) Ralph’s comment wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows; it would merely have been written off as another opinionated statement. Ah well, each to his own.

Oh, thanks spitfire, I stand corrected.

Nice one Ralph. You serious or what? Two or maybe even three things wrong with that statement, and I shouldn’t have to point them out.

In any case, I work near said caravan park – it doesn’t have a good reputation. At all.

(BTW bulldog, it’s the ‘dang’ roof.)

Ralph that’s crap. Death penalty is no deterrent to any crime. All a criminal cares about is not getting caught – the penalty doesn’t come into thinking at all.

I wonder if a neighbour counts in Higgins statement last week about domestic violence being abhorrent and a scourge on society (big paraphrase there). Why is domestic violence that much worse than a bloke choking another to death over a stein (although if it was one of the Oktoberfest ones – the original glass, not crappy plastic ones you get now – I could understand it)

Bring back the death penalty and these maggots will soon think twice before belting someone to death.

truly astounding. WTF? I was always pretty certain that if someone was killed in a drunken brawl, that the perpetrator would go to jail… Truly alarmingly, he has now set a legal precedent for this sort of thing.

By “Higgins-Logic”, if I get done DUI can I get let off because I was drunk and unfamiliar with the legal principles?

And it’s hard not to perpetuate stereotypes about caravan parks when the victim, his mother and her partner all have different surnames….

HEY MA, GET OFF THE DAMN ROOF!

also, he BROKE A BEER STEIN and walks free
forgive me making light of this as if it were a joke…
I suspect DPP didnt do too much thinking since they were getting a guilty plea

I love the part that said “Because he was drunk and unfamiliar with the legal principles, telling the operator he had “murdered somebody” should not be construed as an admission.”

So if you don’t have legal training and are drunk all the time you can pretty much get away with whatever you want?

Yes Mael, the moral there is inarguable.