Legal Beagle: David Garrett wins
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Meanwhile John Banks joneses for user pays under the guise of local self-determination. This should help dispel misconceptions that he's the Nat/C&R candidate rather than an Act one.
The whole city should not fund free pools in one area and not in others. Why should a retired ratepayer in Orewa pay for free pools in Manurewa when they can't access them, even if they wanted to?
Under this system, if your local board listens to what you and your neighbours say and decides to have free pools, then the subsidy will come from your local rates.
Want a library - move to a rich suburb? Good footpaths - rich suburb. Social justice - another city.
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Who won the last Olympic Gold for Rugby?
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this is where the life without without parole for second strike murder comes in – the normal sentence for murder is life
Do you think this will lead to an adjustment in the sentences that judges hand down for murder on a second strike? Where they would have given life (with the expectation of parole), they will now give out a "lesser" absolute sentence knowing that parole can't be applied?
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The mandatory nature seems redundant with our never release clause of Preventative Detention.
It's aspects of a penal system that cross-over into mental health that seems sensible to me & only for the very few.
So this is just gonna increase the prisoner numbers, costing so much more, oh and just prior to privatisation?
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So this is just gonna increase the prisoner numbers
Only a few hundred more - but it looks like you're being all tough with teh crime. That's what matters.
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The mandatory nature seems redundant with our never release clause of Preventative Detention.
This is an all-too-common misunderstanding of preventive detention. A sentence of preventive detention is not never release - once in operation it acts in exactly the same way as a life sentence.
Preventive detention is just a way of giving life sentences to those who commit offences that don't carry life sentences.
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Only a few hundred more - but it looks like you're being all tough with teh crime. That's what matters.
Umm, it's not just how it looks, they really are getting tough.
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Preventive detention is just a way of giving life sentences to those who commit offences that don't carry life sentences.
Intriguing, thanks
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Tough with a few hundred, Graeme.
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Garrett says the new law will act as a *deterrent*, yet cost prisons an extra $25m?, $50m? (I forget) over coming decades. How does this add up?
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Radio NZ (and other media) report that Dr Sharples is "appalled".
Associate Corrections Minister Pita Sharples says increasing punitive measures does not solve the problem of crime and violence.
He says the proposals will create huge disparities in sentencing and punishment which are completely out of proportion to the crime.
Dr Sharples says it shows the Government is hide-bound by political rhetoric on crime and punishment that has no factual basis.
So the Associate Minister of Corrections strongly opposes the Corrections policy of the government. So he will speak for the government in his portfolio, against the government, in his portfolio.
This is in direct contravention of the confidence and supply agreement, so the Minister will have to resign. So he won't.
I hope that's clear.
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So the Associate Minister of Corrections strongly opposes the Corrections policy of the government.
Although this is now being fronted by the minister of corrections, that is most likely because the minister of justice - who has responsibility for this bill - privately disagrees with it. This is a justice policy, not a corrections policy.
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This is a justice policy, not a corrections policy.
The sun doesn't rise in the east, and set in the west. It doesn't actually move at all. But, you know ...
The duck rule applies. It's about people in prison. It's a corrections policy.
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It's not about people in prison. It's about people in court. People in prison are completely unaffected.
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I think this is an extrermely important point:
Kim Workman, from lobby group Rethinking Crime and Punishment, agreed, saying the policy effectively transferred discretion from the judiciary to the police.
"Under the proposed legislation, the police could for example, lay a charge of assault of aggravated injury against an offender, which is a three strikes offence. They could then plea bargain with the offender, and reduce the charge to aggravated assault, which is not eligible, on condition that the offender pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.
Many of the problems in the gimmick-laden US justice system come down to the way police effectively do the sentencing via prosecutorial discretion.
This is a horrible, horrible way to to go.
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And with the legal aid service having a crushing blow recently, all you'll need is a rubber stamp.
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This is a horrible, horrible way to to go.
This level of horrible, methinks?
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Graeme: "People in prison are completely unaffected."
From the government's press release, yesterday:
The regime is expected to create a gradual increase in the number of prison beds required. An extra 142 prison beds will be needed in the first 10 years. This will be taken into account by the Department of Corrections in its planning for future prison capacity.
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The impact on the New Zealand prison population is estimated at 56 additional beds after five years, 142 beds after 10 years, 288 after 20 years, 433 after 30 years and 725 after 50 years.
etc.
(quack, quack)
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again - that's because people who aren't in prison are being affected (by being sent to prison).
Saying that this is about corrections policy is like saying a policy to provide completely free healthcare for everyone under 18 is a policy about senior citizens, because healthier children will live longer, and there will be more senior citizens.
The effect of this policy on the corrections portfolio is entirely tangential.
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It has to be deeper than that, or young people wouldn't be voting for them as well
That would be the offspring I mentioned, influenced by their clueless parents.
Humans are hugely suggestible and children even more so.
We have to** learn/be taught** a massive amount of what we need to "survive". And when the definition of survival passed on is fucked, people become fucked.And then there was Helen & Co who coped a lot of flake, for no justifiable reason, just because people have the capacity to be capricious little shits.
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So, is the shift from "life with a non-parole period of 25 years" to "maximum sentence with no parole" sufficient to overcome the A-G's BORA concerns about disproportionate punishment?
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This article backs my understanding of Preventative Detention, that being you prove yourself safe to the community in order to be released, whereas the mandatory system locks up the little fish with the big for longer but not potentially indefinately.
"But Victoria University criminology Professor John Pratt said the proposed law change would let a third-time offender out after a fixed period, whereas imposing preventive detention would mean they could be kept in prison for the rest of their life if they were still deemed a risk. "
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3243404/Opposition-to-Govts-three-strikes-sentencing-policy
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Graeme:
6. Finally, the initial proposal of the Sensible Sentencing Trust and ACT's to include smacking as a strike offence has still been rejected.
Those two groups wanted to include smacking? Why? I thought the SST didn't want smacking to even be an offence. Why would they want it to be a strike offence? For PR purposes?
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Those two groups wanted to include smacking? Why? I thought the SST didn't want smacking to even be an offence. Why would they want it to be a strike offence? For PR purposes?
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I too thought it could only be so that you can complain some more about how unjust it was?
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Those two groups wanted to include smacking? Why? I thought the SST didn't want smacking to even be an offence. Why would they want it to be a strike offence? For PR purposes?
For incompetence purposes.
They didn't know what they were doing. The SST's draft didn't even include attempted murder!
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