Grace Millane
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@Mokey said in Grace Millane:
I keep seeing new articles of women who went on dates with him and got freaked out by his turn on a dime temper and hardcore entitlement.
He is now appealing to the supreme court about his convictions. Kind of hope they hear it fast, reject everything, and we never hear his fucking name again.
Funny, first people wanted to know his name, now we want to forget it!!!
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The Sentencing Act distinguishes between determinate sentences i.e. a set duration such as 10 years, and indeterminate sentences i.e. life imprisonment and preventive detention both of which can see an offender stay in prison for the rest of their life.
Indeterminate sentences are already for life, and anyone released on parole will be monitored until they die in almost all cases (the parole board can order otherwise, but that's rare), and will be subject to being recalled for the rest of their life as well. Because of this, adding determinate sentences to indeterminate sentences does nothing (what can you add to a sentence that is already for the rest of their life), so the Sentencing Act doesn't allow it. One of the complicating factors is that the murder was his last offence but it was prosecuted first since it was the most serious and other crimes were reported later, so the sexual assaults weren't part of his criminal record/history when the judge was sentencing for murder.
What the extra offending does show, however, is that this poor excuse for a human has a pattern of serious violent and sexual offending, so any parole board looking at him in the future will be considering his risk to the public in terms of all of his criminal history. That's a long time away, so maybe he will reform, but I doubt it, and it's a lot more likely that he will see 25-30 years before parole. As an example to show that parole boards do tend toward caution despite perhaps a reputation to the contrary, the longest-serving prisoner in NZ is currently Alf Vincent who has been inside over 50 years for sex offences - he has just been ordered released by the High Court as he has serious dementia and isn't more of a danger to anyone than anyone else with dementia, but the parole board weren't going to release him.
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@Godder There might be a way to keep bastards like this locked up forever. The police simply wait until their current sentence is finished before they lay more charges and have them heard separately rather than in conjunction with heaps of others, a situation where concurrent sentences should not apply.
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@Godder Sorry but I did not quite explain fully what I meant before I posted. I meant serial offenders that commit hundreds of crimes that result in finite (not life) sentences. Charge them for one then lay another charge when the custodial sentence for the first is completed, then another, then another and so on
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@Higgins we have preventive detention for that, so charging later is an option, but if there's enough evil, easier just to go for PD. Also, if there are multiple offences at separate times, the judge will sentence either cumulatively (concurrent sentences are for offences which were part of the same crime or series of events eg stealing a car for a ram raid) or on the totality of offending, both of which will result in much longer sentences than normal concurrent sentences.
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@Higgins said in Grace Millane:
@Godder Sorry but I did not quite explain fully what I meant before I posted. I meant serial offenders that commit hundreds of crimes that result in finite (not life) sentences. Charge them for one then lay another charge when the custodial sentence for the first is completed, then another, then another and so on
There's an easier way. Actually don't support it, but it is easier.
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@Frank for a method the yanks have been using since 1982 (was legalised in 1977 but the first execution by lethal injection was in 1982), they are remarkably terrible at it. I'm very much opposed to capital punishment, but the guillotine is probably the most humane method.