Good character references for Court

Conor84

How important are these really and does the Judge actually take notice of them?

Claw Hammer

Conor84 wrote: »

How important are these really and does the Judge actually take notice of them?

What are you talking about?

endacl

Claw Hammer wrote: »

What are you talking about?

References for court?

Claw Hammer

endacl wrote: »

References for court?

References to what?

GarIT

Claw Hammer wrote: »

References to what?

When the priest turns up to the court and says you were a good lad and it was peer pressure that made you sell the kilo of coke.

Claw Hammer

GarIT wrote: »

When the priest turns up to the court and says you were a good lad and it was peer pressure that made you sell the kilo of coke.

You mean Character testimonials?

Conor84

Claw Hammer wrote: »

What are you talking about?

Yeah character references I mean. To use in mitigation. Have been advised to get 2 or 3 but not great
having to ask people

silver2020

They can be good if they come from pillars of the community -

A principal of a school, an employer, a leader in an organisation, a sports leader etc.


Forget politicians.

If you have the right people it can mean quite a lot

Claw Hammer

Conor84 wrote: »

Yeah character references I mean. To use in mitigation. Have been advised to get 2 or 3 but not great
having to ask people

Generally they are a help. Judges like to have some idea about the person they are sentencing. They tend to lean towards leniency if there are no previous offences or if someone can demonstrate something positive in other aspects of their life. If you're a first-time offender and the pitches that you are generally a good person but made one mistake, the judge is likely to be lenient. If your habitual offender who was at numerous previous chances, a reference from the Pope won't be much good.

GarIT

Claw Hammer wrote: »

Generally they are a help. Judges like to have some idea about the person they are sentencing. They tend to lean towards leniency if there are no previous offences or if someone can demonstrate something positive in other aspects of their life. If you're a first-time offender and the pitches that you are generally a good person but made one mistake, the judge is likely to be lenient. If your habitual offender who was at numerous previous chances, a reference from the Pope won't be much good.

Have you been to Ireland? Noatter how much of a serial offender you are you'll get a suspended sentence, whether that is your first or 300th it's all the same.

Doublebusy

Are they taking you to court over the xmas party situation

Conor84

Yeah its because of that

nuac

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Claw Hammer

GarIT wrote: »

Have you been to Ireland? Noatter how much of a serial offender you are you'll get a suspended sentence, whether that is your first or 300th it's all the same.

Urban myth.