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What's the minimum?

  • 15-10-2007 6:51pm
    #1
    EdgarAllenPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭


    What are the mandatory minimum sentences regarding robbery and armed robbery in Ireland?


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  • #2
    Turner
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭Turner


    No difference between robbery and armed robbery. The offence is actually putting somebody in fear. You can commit robbery with no weapon only your fists or words.

    There are no mandatory sentences, the person could receive probation (get off) up to life imorisonment i think.

    check out..
    14. —(1) A person is guilty of robbery if he or she steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force.

    (2) A person guilty of robbery is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.


  • #3
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    However under the new criminal justice act 2006, posseing a firearm with intent to endanger life carries up to life and a mandatory 10 years unless there are exceptional circumstances and its a first offence.

    Similarly possesion in suspicious circumstances, while attempting to commit an indictable crime or during the taking of a motor vehicle without consent carries up to 14 years with a mandatory 5 unless its a first offence and there are exceptional circumstances


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