Now the best Premier Brumby and Attorney General Hulls can come up with is that it is not cool to carry knives.
It’s either that or if they are having a search in the CBD then they give seven days notice!
Two years jail is the penalty, yet the bleeding hearts Judiciary and Brumby and Hulls seem to beleive that fines will make the thugs realize it is not cool to carry a knife…
They have to be joking you would think, but no they are fair dinkum, give us a break!
For any one who has lost a loved family member or anyone who has been injured by one of these cowards with a knife, I would love to hear from you at info@cvsa.asn.au (with name and telephone number please).
It dosen’t take rocket science to run a top violent crimminals jail, my hero is still sorting the men from the boys…
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You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well………
Oh, there’s MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay.
The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who’d like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dog s off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.
The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got him. Cost us $78.
The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals.
I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand.
He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 – $8 for the holidays and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the prison.
Yup, he was re-elected last year with 83% of the vote…
Suppresion order Judge Sue PUllen is one of the bleeding heart judges appointed by Attorney General Rob Hulls–The ones who make sure that pedophiles and rapists are not named.
And I have to say that Sue was a bit stiff. It could have been one of the other judges who behaved like Lizz in suppression orders, it had to happen sooner or latter.
Well let me tell you when this sex offender (whose name we can no longer mention) took off from the “Village of the Dammed”, the phones went “ape droppings” with victims ringing up to find out if he was the person who had attacked them or a family member.
I was able to tell them it wasn’t, but why should I have to because of the mentality of some of our judges?
Now only in certain cases should this happen and beleive me this was not one.
What ever happened to transparency?
Continue reading Judge Sue Pullen →
Feel free to read my comments at the end of this article…
Supreme Court judge lifts ban on identifying men who bashed Sudanese refugee Liep Gony to death
Elissa Hunt
From: Herald Sun
February 17, 2010 3:15PM
Clinton Rintoull and Dylan Sabatino bashed a Sudanese youth to death after Rintoull sprayed racist graffiti on a wall and was heard yelling that he was going to “kill blacks” just before the attack.
But a Supreme Court Justice found the murder was not racially motivated because Rintoull claimed he had been kind to a homeless Sudanese boy a week earlier.
The pair had their images kept secret amid fears of jail yard payback for their horrific crime.
But this morning Justice Elizabeth Curtain revoked her suppression orders, saying that there was nothing to justify them.
She said the people were entitled to form their own views on whether the killing was racial and it was not her role to stifle public debate.
Rintoull, 24, and Sabatino, 21, bashed Liep Gony, 19, to death after finding him extremely drunk and helpless in a Noble Park street in September 2007.
Sabatino pleaded guilty to manslaughter and got 10 years’ jail with a minimum of six. Rintoull pleaded to murder, which earned him 20 years with a minimum of 16.
Rintoull had been complaining that local Sudanese had “turning the town into the Bronx”.
But Justice Curtain said she was not satisfied the killing was race-related.
Picture: JOE ARMAO
Angela Barker with her parents Ian and Helen outside Parliament
By Rebecca Urban
August 29, 2003
Angela Barker was 16 when her boyfriend trampled her in a supermarket car park, inflicting brain damage.
Now 18, she lives in a Parkville nursing home and communicates via a voice computer. Under victims-of-crime legislation she has received just $7500 – the maximum sum – for her pain and suffering.
Her then boyfriend, Dale Carey Lepoidevin, is serving 101/2 years in prison for the crime that has left her disabled.
Yesterday, friends and family of the Benalla woman rallied on the steps of Parliament House, calling on the State Government to review its system of compensating crime victims.
While the Barkers received a further $60,000 for medical and related expenses and another $50,000 paid to Angela’s parents as secondary victims of the crime, they believe the $7500 awarded for pain and suffering was inadequate.
“Victims need more,” Angela’s mother, Helen Barker, said. “I don’t want lots of cash but I’d like to know for sure that Angela’s needs will be met in the future. We’re both pensioners – we can’t pay.”
Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara has been lobbying Attorney-General Rob Hulls on the family’s behalf since October last year but said requests for a meeting had so far been ignored.
Yesterday Mr McNamara arranged for high-profile crime victims Kay Nesbit and George Halvagis to rally outside Parliament House to support the Barkers.
“We want the Government to lift the benchmarks for the crimes compensation award,” Mr McNamara said. “People don’t want to be rich; they just want to be able to live without being in poverty.”
While doctors initially said Angela might never recover, she can now sit and is learning to walk again. But Mrs Barker said she did not know when her daughter would be well enough to leave the nursing home or how much care she would need in future.
Benalla MP Bill Sykes raised the matter in Parliament this week, saying Angela’s recovery was being jeopardised because the Government’s victims-of-crime policy did not allow for adequate funding for physiotherapy. Shadow attorney-general Andrew McIntosh has urged Mr Hulls to meet the Barkers.
A spokeswoman for Mr Hulls said a representative from the Justice Department met the family yesterday afternoon to discuss their concerns.
She said the Bracks Government had amended the Victims of Crime Assistance Act three years ago to award pain and suffering compensation to crime victims and the Barkers had received the maximum in each category.
Angela’s father, Ian, said he would not be satisfied until he was able to meet Mr Hulls.
To your left is a picture of Angela Barker from several years ago who is in a wheel chair for life thanks to her thug ex-boyfriend. I urge you to read about what happened to Angela by clicking on her picture.
The maximum payment given to victims of crime for pain and suffering is now $10,000. Two years ago it was $7,500 and in this case the thug initially got five years in jail and then seven and a half years on appeal. Our so called justice system and it’s an absoulte disgrace.
This thug is now out of jail and we believe that for any payment he received whilst in jail, half should should have been taken off him and payed to the victim. But of course it was not.
We believe in future that half of any money these thugs earn (whether it be dole or wage) should go to the victims for the rest of their lives.
It is my personal opinion and as I have said before, the best cure for scum like this is not to warehouse them at our expense in jail.
Permanent rehabilitation at the end of a rope would certanly work for me, what about you?
Readers vote in favour of return of death penalty in the wake of Leigh Robinson’s conviction over murder of Tracey Greenbury
Russell Robinson, AAP
From: Herald Sun
September 23, 2009 12:00AMHarold Dunn’s daughter Valerie was viciously stabbed and murdered by Leigh Robinson in 1968. Picture: David Caird
AN advocate for victims of crime has called for an overhaul of the justice system as Herald Sun readers vote in favour of a return of the death penalty in the wake of Leigh Robinson’s conviction.
Noel McNamara’s comments come after 61-year-old Leigh Robinson was convicted on Tuesday for murdering his girlfriend Tracey Greenbury, 33.
Robinson’s latest conviction comes 40 years after he was sentenced to death in 1968 for the stabbing murder of an ex-girlfriend. That sentence was commuted to a 20-year jail term.
Mr McNamara said Robinson should never have been allowed out of jail, adding that maximum sentences for convicted murderers needed to handed out.
“Anyone that is classed as a murderer and has been sentenced as a murderer and then comes out and commits other crimes of violence, and gets slaps on the wrist, we just find that a terrible thing,” Mr McNamara told AAP.
This I would believe would have happened in Germany in the 30′s as Adolph Hitler wound back democracy. These bleeding heart judges (who have been elevated from defence barristers) have decided, in their own little cartels, to tell us that the philosophy of “Justice must not only be seen to be done but must be done” is now dead and buried.
Over the ten years of Attorney General Rob Hulls’ term of office I have witnessed our legal system slowly taking away victims rights in favor of the criminal’s.
One that really got to me is the leanency shown to ex Hells Angel Terry Tognolini. Now as I did my rounds over the past year this scumbags kept appearing in different County Courts with different judges on different charges. One thing that stood out like a dogs tail was that jurys were not allowed to know about his Hells Angels past, yet if the victims had a past it was made loud and clear to the jury!
Tognolini was convicted and sentenced recently for standover crimes. In addition to sexual offences for which he was already serving time, he got another lousy 18 months!
Bring on the elections, the sooner the better.
What is going on in our Justice System, the one that is supposed to belong to us, the community at large? I have to say that whatever sort of jungle juice is in these judge’s morning tea is beyond me…
In the Appeals Court recently we had Justices’ Ashley, Nettle, and Wineberg grant Peter Dupas a retrial over the brutal murder of Mersina Halvagas.
You have to ask youself why.
This dirtbag is going to leave jail in a body bag and so he should, the sooner the better! Yet these idiots Judges (Ashley appointed 2005, Nettle appionted 2004 and Winberg appointed 2008) have made this decision, for want of a better phrase, to “stick it up” the Halvagas family.
Now the next story says it all in terms of judicial stupidy. Judge Lizzie Curtain believes that the following crime was not racially motivated…
Justice Elizabeth Curtain imposes ban on showing men responsible for Liep Gony murder
* Norrie Ross
* From: Herald Sun
* December 12, 2009 12:00AMA JUDGE has hidden the faces of two ruthless killers who beat a Sudanese refugee to death because she fears they might suffer retribution in prison.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain said the personal safety of Clinton Rintoull and Dylan Sabatino was more important than the public’s right to see their images.
The Supreme Court judge also said the murder of Liep Gony, 18, was not racially motivated – despite Rintoull spraying racist graffiti and saying he was “going to take the town back” by killing blacks.
Lawyers for Rintoull and Sabatino argued that because the attack was said to be racially motivated, their clients would be under threat in jail from Sudanese prisoners.
Justice Curtain also banned publication of photos of racist graffiti sprayed by Rintoul, which said “F— da niggas”.
In sentencing, the judge said Rintoull had been angry after a confrontation with Sudanese youths at Noble Park station, and his racial comments “bespeak of anger, frustration and a sense of vigilantism”.
But she did not believe the attack was racially motivated because, a few days before, Rintoull had made sandwiches for a homeless African youth.
Mr Gony’s family were stunned and outraged.
Outside court, his uncle, Dodeng Pouch, said it was clear the attack was racial.
“The words they have said before the attack – they went out motivated, they went out to do the job, they went out to search for a murder, to kill a black man,” he said.
Mr Gony’s mother, Martha Ojullo Alama, said:
“My son was preyed on and killed like a dog on the street and justice didn’t give me what I was hoping to hear, what I was hoping that they deserved to get. When they let us in this country, (they said) you come and arrive in Australia, here you will be safe.”
Rintoull, 24, of Noble Park, pleaded guilty to murder and and was jailed for 20 years with a non-parole term of 16 years.
Sabatino, 21, was jailed for 10 years with a non-parole term of six years after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
Justice Curtain said on September 26, 2007, Rintoull was seen outside his home at 10pm, carrying a metal pole, and yelling and ranting.
He was heard to say “these blacks are turning the town into the Bronx. I’m going to take the town back. I’m looking to kill blacks.”
He also told a friend “I guess I’ll go and take my anger out on some n—–s”.
He confronted a very drunk and helpless Mr Gony, and hit him at least 15 times in the head and body with the pole.
Sabatino, who had gone looking for Rintoull, arrived with a metal pole and joined the bashing. Mr Gony died in hospital.
A flatmate said Rintoull and Sabatino returned after the beating and washed the bloodied and bent metal poles used to kill their victim.
“I bashed a n—-r and I think he’s dead,” Rintoull said.
I’ve got to say that she certanly has someting wrong between her ears…
This crime was not racially motivated???!!!
Hey Lizzie, tell me where you get your jungle juice! Then in her usual fashion she goes on to suppress the press from showing photos of the scumbags because they might be bashed in prison. Wake up Lizzie, everyone in the prison knows who these scumbags are, as we all do outside the prison.
Lizzie, you must have led a very sheltered life.