Dodson was jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to dangerous driving, drink-driving and assault by beating.
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Dodson was jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to dangerous driving, drink-driving and assault by beating.
- and I f the doorman had not managed to jump away from the car he most likely would have suffered much worse injuries or died. Why is it we constantly see defendants claiming they were not intent on killing when quite plainly their actions were highly lilkly to kill someone? The balance of justice is completely wrong in these cases.Judge Susan Evans QC said she accepted that Dodson, had tried to "frighten" and not kill.
Barks wrote:- and I f the doorman had not managed to jump away from the car he most likely would have suffered much worse injuries or died. Why is it we constantly see defendants claiming they were not intent on killing when quite plainly their actions were highly lilkly to kill someone? The balance of justice is completely wrong in these cases.Judge Susan Evans QC said she accepted that Dodson, had tried to "frighten" and not kill.
Barks wrote:Thank you, I can see that the Judge has to be seen to support the verdict, an interesting point you make on the possible appeal against sentencing. I suppose It comes across that if I drive my car at someone and they don’t get out of the way then it is their fault not mine they died. Perhaps just a more extreme version of victim blaming that we see with road incidents.
Barks wrote:I accept the point on the evidence but the details are never available to us. What I struggle with is that two people, both in a drunken rage after an earlier altercation, purposely drive a car into people and in one case someone dies but not in the other yet the acts themselves appear to be identical in method and make contact with people. It just seems to my mind that the crime is the same just one outcome is less serious than the other. The two diffent levels of conviction feel so arbitrary that it undermines my confidence in the ability of our legal system, it seems just be a version of postcode or should I say jury lottery. (My emphasis
The 21-year-old, who is serving with the British army, was struck by a blue Mercedes car outside the TBC club on Bradford Road, Batley, West Yorkshire.
Police said there was an altercation inside the venue that spilled outside.
Abdul, of Deptford, south-east London, was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court of two counts of attempted murder.
Mr Whittaker, 46, of no fixed address, denies a charge of attempted murder.
thirdcrank wrote:Driver 'rammed cyclist then attacked him' in ReadingMr Whittaker, 46, of no fixed address, denies a charge of attempted murder.
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