how to fight a parking ticket
how to fight a parking ticket
Imagine two defendants before the court for sentencing:
The first defendant is a violent criminal. He attacked his victim in a parking lot, and continued hitting and kicking the victim long after the victim fell on the floor, unconscious. The victim nearly died on the way to hospital, lost his own job because of the long convalescence, and is still walking with a noticeable limp for several months. The victim and his family are still suffering the consequences the attack and demanding the longest sentence, the judge may impose.
The second accused is a young offender, who was an athlete high school and plans to attend college. He and his friend were accosted after leaving a convenience store by a group of thugs. Their gang leader chose a battle, not knowing that the would-be victim was more than his match. Unfortunately, the defendant lost his temper and, after taking over, continued to fight long after the attacker fell to the ground, unconscious. He inflicted serious injury to head and body before you calm down enough to realize what had happened. Even if the rest of the gang fled when it became clear that their leader had fallen, the defendant was the person who called 911 to ask for help, and he remained on scene until the arrival police.
Most people would agree with the family of the victim, and believes that the judge should throw the first defendant to prison for as long as possible. But many feel a measure of sympathy for the second young man, who seems a nice guy who acted out of character moments, and then only when it was attacked, itself. And many people would even be willing to reduce the second defendant some slack, especially since the bully may very well have died if the defendant proved hadnÂ't more help in a crisis that Bullia's own DO-er-do-well friends.
Judges are often blamed for our crime problem, dismissed as soft or too lenient on criminals. But the conviction of a defendant is a task highly personal. The judge must consider the crime and the offender-should take into account the damage caused by the act, and the extenuating circumstances which might suggest tempering justice with Mercier and must do so in the face of the often strong emotions that crime creates in the hearts of victims and citizens. To be a "soft on Crimea" May a serious malfunction of a judge, of being too cold heart to see the tragedy human that many crimes to bring everyone can be an oppressive one, too.
The rigid formality of a courtroom in May Strike some as pompous or pretentious. They lend an ear to our common legal heritage, when judges are representatives of the king. But we get up when the judge enters the room with respect to the office to work can be difficult and sometimes overwhelming. Judges must, by nature of their work, make many difficult decisions while Daya-decisions that change the lives of people who come before them.
Sometimes when they are lucky, they have guidelines clear in the law to guide their actions. They may not always like the result, but like everyone else, they just work. And they can take some solace in that they too are bound by the law.
Other times, the law leaves the decision entirely to them. Their actions are dictated not by law but by their own consciences and those decisions will be more solitary, the most difficult decisions of all.
As deciding how to order the two accused in court today … which happen to be the same person.
Jeffrey Caminsky, a veteran public prosecutor, specializes in the appellate practice of criminal law and writes on a wide range of topics. Both his science fiction adventure novel The Star Dancers, the first volume in the Guardians of Peace ™ science fiction adventure series, and The RefereeÂ’s Survival Guide, a book on soccer officiating, are published by New Alexandria Press, http://www.newalexandriapress.com
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