200hrs community service for 1/5 of a gram of Pot

drunkmonkey · 13-11-2015 11:45AM #1

I'd expect this in Saudi Arabia but Nass you got to be kidding me..

A mother of one was today ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service after she was convicted of having €10 worth of cannabis.

Naas District Court heard the defendant was a very good parent who was embarrassed to be in court.

Judge Desmond Zaidan said he will apply the Probation Act if the defendant successfully completes 200 hours of community service.

http://www.kildarenow.com/news/single-mum-27-caught-with-e10-of-cannabis/56545

What a complete waste of Court, Garda, Judges, Community workers time not to mention the emotional strain on the poor girl and her family. Now expected to leave her kid for 200hrs.
This case is an embarresment to the Gardaì and our entire legal system.

Mena · 13-11-2015 11:46AM

Don't do the crime comes to mind. Don't like it, get the law changed.

gouche · 13-11-2015 11:51AM

Mena wrote: »

Don't do the crime comes to mind. Don't like it, get the law changed.

€10 worth?
There are people getting caught with a lot more and getting off more lightly.
In my youth I was caught with about 7 or 8 pills and got nothing but a day in court.
Complete waste of time and resources.
Hopefully Aodhan O Riordain's plans will come to fruition and we can stop criminalising people for possessing small amounts.

AudreyHepburn · 13-11-2015 11:53AM

Can't handle the time, don't do the crime....simple as that imo.

If you break the law you must accept the consequences, she has only herself to blame.

One eyed Jack · 13-11-2015 11:53AM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I'd expect this in Saudi Arabia but Nass you got to be kidding me..

A mother of one was today ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service after she was convicted of having €10 worth of cannabis.

Naas District Court heard the defendant was a very good parent who was embarrassed to be in court.

Judge Desmond Zaidan said he will apply the Probation Act if the defendant successfully completes 200 hours of community service.

http://www.kildarenow.com/news/single-mum-27-caught-with-e10-of-cannabis/56545

What a complete waste of Court, Garda, Judges, Community workers time not to mention the emotional strain on the poor girl and her family. Now expected to leave her kid for 200hrs.
This case is an embarresment to the Gardaì and our entire legal system.

My heart bleeds. What has the fact that the woman is a parent got to do with anything? It's relevant when it comes to sentencing, but ignored when it's pointed out why she was in the dock in the first place?

It's 200 hours community service, hardly banged up abroad. Chill OP :pac:

major bill · 13-11-2015 11:54AM

Paul Blart style Garda must have charged her!!

€10 **** me give that man a bonus the drugs are off the streets.

endacl · 13-11-2015 11:55AM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I'd expect this in Saudi Arabia

Is this going to be the new 'Godwin'?

One eyed Jack · 13-11-2015 11:56AM

gouche wrote: »

€10 worth?
There are people getting caught with a lot more and getting off more lightly.
In my youth I was caught with about 7 or 8 pills and got nothing but a day in court.
Complete waste of time and resources.
Hopefully Aodhan O Riordain's plans will come to fruition and we can stop criminalising people for possessing small amounts.

You're correct, and would that suggest to you that there's more to that story than is being reported in the media?

Because that's exactly what it suggests to me.

suicide_circus · 13-11-2015 11:58AM

Good to see the judiciary with their finger on the pulse. Good use of resources all round.

BrokenArrows · 13-11-2015 11:58AM

200 hours is a bit harsh. Jesus.
Thats 5 weeks working full time at a job. Insane.

gouche · 13-11-2015 11:58AM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

You're correct, and would that suggest to you that there's more to that story than is being reported in the media?

Because that's exactly what it suggests to me.

Quite possibly but I'm going off the story as told by the OP.
And in my eyes getting 200hrs of community service for a ten-spot is ridiculous.

Superhorse · 13-11-2015 11:59AM

Pablo Escobar see ain't. Silly stuff and a waste of everyone's time.

Herb Powell · 13-11-2015 11:59AM

€50 a gram? Fucck off

Duggy747 · 13-11-2015 12:00PM

That is pretty excessive for 1/5th of smoke. Maybe she's had previous encounters with the cops / judge to warrant the 200 hours?

drunkmonkey · 13-11-2015 12:02PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

That is pretty excessive for 1/5th of smoke. Maybe she's had previous encounters with the cops / judge to warrant the 200 hours?

He's a leabinese judge working in Ireland, he's considered the closest thing we have to Judge Judy.

One eyed Jack · 13-11-2015 12:11PM

gouche wrote: »

Quite possibly but I'm going off the story as told by the OP.
And in my eyes getting 200hrs of community service for a ten-spot is ridiculous.

On just the sentence alone itself, I'm inclined to think it's quite likely to put her off appearing in the dock again given that she was embarrassed by the fact that she got caught with, well, what is admittedly a very small amount of drugs.

It might just make her take her responsibilities as a parent more seriously, given that the paper, and the OP, makes quite a point of the fact that she is also a parent.

meeeeh · 13-11-2015 12:15PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

200 hours is a bit harsh. Jesus.
Thats 5 weeks working full time at a job. Insane.

She must have time to do it.

Saipanne · 13-11-2015 12:17PM

endacl wrote: »

Is this going to be the new 'Godwin'?

No, Irish Water took that title.

asherbassad · 13-11-2015 12:22PM

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Can't handle the time, don't do the crime....simple as that imo.

If you break the law you must accept the consequences, she has only herself to blame.

What a load of medieval, reactionary bollocks.

crazygeryy · 13-11-2015 12:23PM

she ll be very slow to do it again.
job done.
and her poor children and family my arse,does she think of the children when shes stoned off her knockers?

major bill · 13-11-2015 12:24PM

crazygeryy wrote: »

she ll be very slow to do it again.
job done.
and her poor children and family my arse,does she think of the children when shes stoned off her knockers?

Only took two pages before someone made an assumption on her parenting, bravo!!

Superhorse · 13-11-2015 12:25PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

On just the sentence alone itself, I'm inclined to think it's quite likely to put her off appearing in the dock again given that she was embarrassed by the fact that she got caught with, well, what is admittedly a very small amount of drugs.

It might just make her take her responsibilities as a parent more seriously, given that the paper, and the OP, makes quite a point of the fact that she is also a parent.

Haha. Yeah the odd joint makes you a bad parent as opposed to getting twisted down the pub once a week.

bodice ripper · 13-11-2015 12:26PM

What will the cops get charged with for pretending a 1/5 of a gram costs a tenner? Would it have been too embarrassing to bring her to court of three quids worth?

meeeeh · 13-11-2015 12:29PM

major bill wrote: »

Only took two pages before someone made an assumption on her parenting, bravo!!

In fairness anyone who brings a good mother argument into court is asking for it. I'm not saying she is not but I would like to know what "good mother" actually describes.

henryporter · 13-11-2015 12:31PM

Not hard to see the ones who haven't smoked a joint in this thread :pac:. Getting stoned and quality of parenting aren't mutually exclusive. A lot of parent out there not getting stoned who don't have much by way of good parenting skills either.

Anyhow irregardless of this rather silly sentencing it might be better to promote this chap up to the High Court or beyond so that he could hand out some proper sentences to the scrotes who aren't getting them at the moment?

Peist2007 · 13-11-2015 12:31PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

On just the sentence alone itself, I'm inclined to think it's quite likely to put her off appearing in the dock again given that she was embarrassed by the fact that she got caught with, well, what is admittedly a very small amount of drugs.

It might just make her take her responsibilities as a parent more seriously, given that the paper, and the OP, makes quite a point of the fact that she is also a parent.

Stupid sentence. Completely out of touch.

One eyed Jack · 13-11-2015 12:34PM

Superhorse wrote: »

Haha. Yeah the odd joint makes you a bad parent as opposed to getting twisted down the pub once a week.

I never made any judgement of her parenting skills. I don't see how the fact she is a parent is relevant at all, but if the media, and the OP, are going to make a point of the fact that this woman is a parent, then yes, I will question whether she thought risking getting caught with a ten spot seems like a good idea in hindsight.

Clearly, it isn't.

I'm not sure what anyone getting twisted down the pub has to do with this story? It's completely irrelevant actually, nothing more than a ridiculous effort to try and wedge in a strawman.

asherbassad · 13-11-2015 12:35PM

One eyed Jack wrote: »

On just the sentence alone itself, I'm inclined to think it's quite likely to put her off appearing in the dock again given that she was embarrassed by the fact that she got caught with, well, what is admittedly a very small amount of drugs.

It might just make her take her responsibilities as a parent more seriously, given that the paper, and the OP, makes quite a point of the fact that she is also a parent.

Her responsibilities as a parent.

Do you know something about her parenting skills that the rest of us don't?

Fr_Dougal · 13-11-2015 12:37PM

Legalise marihuana and be done with it. Tax the bloody thing and take the profits out of the hands of criminals.

One eyed Jack · 13-11-2015 12:39PM

Peist2007 wrote: »

Stupid sentence. Completely out of touch.

What's actually stupid, is getting caught with drugs.

What's stupid about the sentence? It's 200 hours community service, not a custodial sentence, she was back with her child an hour later, and is unlikely to want to appear in the dock again.

Birneybau · 13-11-2015 12:39PM

I'd be appealing that.

200hrs community service for 1/5 of a gram of Pot

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