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Jason Simmons said:
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On 9 news some lawyer said the punishment was normal for those types of offence.

Jarrod Bleijie was chest beating.

Deb Frecklington looking into a change of law blsh blah blah
 
The typical talking heads are already calling for the NRL to make up the difference on his punishment. Some fuckwit on 2GB called for him to miss the whole of 2025. He'll be lucky to have a career that spans 11 to 12 years and he should lose one of them because of an off season incident.....

These ***** will always hate our guts, folks. Revel in it.
 
The law was applied, consistently. That he's a Bronco doesn't change the law.

The NRL and the Club, will impose their own penalty for the 'disrepute' Ezra has brought the game under. That'll be five to six figures and a 4-6 game suspension.
 
Kaz said:
On 9 news some lawyer said the punishment was normal for those types of offence.

Jarrod Bleijie was chest beating.

Deb Frecklington looking into a change of law blsh blah blah
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Only one law they need to change - the Penalties and Sentences Act. Which is responsible for all the piss-weak sentences the “learned” judiciary choose to hand down.

Except they won’t.

They will do what our Governments always do, increase the maximum penalty and then claim they are “tough on crime”.

Knowing full well of course that the Penalties and Sentences Act prevents the maximum sentence EVER being imposed, except in the most extreme circumstances.

If they were serious they would legislatively impose minimum mandatory sentences so the judiciary couldn’t weasel their way out of imposing an actual sentence.

But they won’t. Even old Joh didn’t and if he wouldn’t, no modern day politician will.
 
Jason Simmons said:
But they won’t. Even old Joh didn’t and if he wouldn’t, no modern day politician will.
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It's also frankly really expensive to jail people. So there's a counter force at work also - by imposing mandatory minimums, you swell the jail population which costs the government money - at a rough cost of $422 per prisoner per day.

Further, there are also cases where people have mitigating circumstances, or the punishment doesn't really fit - but with no discretion in sentencing, can result in unduly harsh scenarios - like mandatory minimums for theft and a kid steals a pencil because he's from a dirt poor family and needs one for school.

As far as drugs go - https://www.acic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-03/NWDMP Report 18_1.PDF A lot of people don't realise how prevalent drug use is within our community. If police got very serious and pulled a sudden citywide blitz on many major roads at peak hour on a work day, you'd be dealing with thousands or potentially tens of thousands of detections.

People get really bent out of shape about the weirdest stuff. Society has a drug problem, it's not just Ezra.
 
Fine seemed pretty weak considering other fines.

Predicting a 6 week ban. 2025 ready to get back on track. Time to move on.
 
Jason Simmons said:
Only one law they need to change - the Penalties and Sentences Act. Which is responsible for all the piss-weak sentences the “learned” judiciary choose to hand down.

Except they won’t.

They will do what our Governments always do, increase the maximum penalty and then claim they are “tough on crime”.

Knowing full well of course that the Penalties and Sentences Act prevents the maximum sentence EVER being imposed, except in the most extreme circumstances.

If they were serious they would legislatively impose minimum mandatory sentences so the judiciary couldn’t weasel their way out of imposing an actual sentence.

But they won’t. Even old Joh didn’t and if he wouldn’t, no modern day politician will.
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You know very well that jail does not reform people .
Also it is school for crims .Drugs are higher quality and more available in prisons so that angle isn`t working . The penalties for crimes have little influence on the people doing the crimes as they don`t think they will get caught anyway .

Then there is loss of income , difficulty getting a job after jail and break down of family units . And the perpetuation of the cycle .

What benefits do you see in jailing people ? Other than removing them from society for a brief time .
 
Big Del said:
You know very well that jail does not reform people .
Also it is school for crims .Drugs are higher quality and more available in prisons so that angle isn`t working . The penalties for crimes have little influence on the people doing the crimes as they don`t think they will get caught anyway .

Then there is loss of income , difficulty getting a job after jail and break down of family units . And the perpetuation of the cycle .

What benefits do you see in jailing people ? Other than removing them from society for a brief time .
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Nevermind the massive amounts of evidence that prove mandatory minimum sentencing doesn't work.
 
I just want the NRL to hurry up and give him his fine so people can shut up about it. We have some idiot defence lawyer claiming that Rehab is needed 6-12 months for any drug user. If it turned out he was addicted the glass BBQ then maybe. But if you go out in public and threw everyone who had nose beers into rehab for 12 months you'd have no tradies under 30 the next week. Even somewhere I used to work that did random drug tests would do them Wednesdays because then they wouldn't decimate their workforce.
 
Broncapz said:
Fine seemed pretty weak considering other fines.

Predicting a 6 week ban. 2025 ready to get back on track. Time to move on.
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Not from the courts

E.g JAC got about a $650 fine

Trindalls fine was a few hundred more ... But in addition to drugs in his system, he was also 3 times over the alcohol limit
 
They're better off making these "drug in system" offences a ticket worth $1500 or something. But make these fools actually pay their fines - either cash or a bit of time at His Majesty's pleasure.
Also, there are people going through for their fourth, fifth and sixth of these charges and they simply get a fine, a little bit higher each time, book it up to SPER and off they go to the next one.
 
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