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5 years for unprovoked assault causing death

suicide_circus · 2019-01-23 14:16:52

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/we-are-extremely-disappointed-family-of-seamus-bell-criticise-killers-sentence-37740816.html a man out celebrating the christening of his twin baby girls was followed and punched in the head, all totally unprovoked, causing him to hit his head and later die. Cant get my head around it at…

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#92 24-01-2019 10:19pm
Ulysses Gaze

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Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

We really, really, don't.

The amount of injustice this causes in the US is unreal. People with guns to their heads storing drugs getting 10+ years.

What we need is proper sentencing from the capable Judges we have already.

You mean capable judges like Martin Nolan?

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#93 24-01-2019 11:26pm
Samuel T. Cogley

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Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

You mean capable judges like Martin Nolan?

I mean like the vast majority of our Judges that make decisions everyday that pass without comment as they are correct. Removing sentencing discretion from Judges means it becomes a political football and we end up with far more issues with the misapplication of justice.

We have an appeal process in this country that is designed to deal with issues like this.

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