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Your thoughts? Good idea or not?

Discuss please:)
 

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Mandatory sentencing on.. what?
Ie, there was a policy in NT and WA a while back (not sure if still present) that ran on a three strike policy. You stole anything three times, and its mandatory that you get locked up.

Got quite silly when someone got jailed for a year for stealing something like $20 worth of biscuits.
 

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Oh right. Well.. eh. I'm ambivalent about the whole thing because I don't know if it'd be effective. Is it practiced successfully anywhere else in the world?
 

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Mandatory sentencing on.. what?
Murder: min 25 years
Rape: min 25 years
Paedophilia: min 25 years
Assault on Police: min 10 years

The rest can continue how the pathetic Australian legal system is today.
 

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Oh right. Well.. eh. I'm ambivalent about the whole thing because I don't know if it'd be effective. Is it practiced successfully anywhere else in the world?
lol...
America
 

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Murder: min 25 years
Rape: min 25 years
Paedophilia: min 25 years
Assault on Police: min 10 years

The rest can continue how the pathetic Australian legal system is today.
Min 10 years for threatening to shove a cop? Are you insane?
 

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Murder: min 25 years
Rape: min 25 years
Paedophilia: min 25 years
Assault on Police: min 10 years

The rest can continue how the pathetic Australian legal system is today.
i like this.

I think mandatory sentence for teenagers and other young adults. Way too many people assault police, no regard for law, etc.
Get away because there first time to court. They get away for a few times, then go juvenile for a month or so, then there back out.

If we kept them locked up for 1 year, for assaulting Police (teenagers), i doubt they would do it again.
 

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Murder: min 25 years
Rape: min 25 years
Paedophilia: min 25 years
Assault on Police: min 10 years

The rest can continue how the pathetic Australian legal system is today.
rape and murder to warrant the same mandatory sentence?

don't think so.

and you need to be more specific with paedophilia. what is the actual crime?
 

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Min 10 years for threatening to shove a cop? Are you insane?
who said anything about threatening, a simple 'physical' assault on a police officer warrants a min 10 years

By assault I mean : Punch/Kick, and obviously assaulting with a weapon. However a slap by a woman can be more leniant lol.
 
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who said anything about threatening, a simple 'physical' assault on a police officer warrants a min 10 years

By assault I mean : Punch/Kick, and obviously assaulting with a weapon. However a slap by a woman can be more leniant lol.
That's battery. Read up on assault, sweetheart.
 

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Does it warrant more or less? And I think murder in this context constitutes pre-meditated murder, not manslaughter or crimes of passion.
Murder doesn't have to be pre-meditated. It doesn't even have to be intentional, the perpetrator of a reckless homicide can be convicted of murder provided their mental state wasn't compromised at the time.
 

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wrxsti: Would having sex with your 9 year old wife count as grounds for a mandatory 25 year sentence?
 

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Murder doesn't have to be pre-meditated. It doesn't even have to be intentional, the perpetrator of a reckless homicide can be convicted of murder provided their mental state wasn't compromised at the time.
Or that :)
 

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