Carlton Albert Jr of Potters has been sentenced after admitting to six gun-related offences in St. John’s Magistrates’ Court.
He was sentenced to one year in prison for firearm possession and fined $10,000 for being found with 59 rounds of 9mm ammunition. The penalties followed his guilty pleas to all charges.
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CONVICTED ON GUILTY PLEA…? …WHAT THE HELL!
Some reporters seemed not to be able to put their news story in proper perspective:
Should this be found understandingly helpful, then it might they might be so guided.
TRIAL PROCEDURES:
(a) ‘…Defendant enters ‘Prisoner’s Dock:
(b) …Complaint is read by Trial Magistrate:
ONE OF TWO PLEAS:
(a) ‘…GUILTY: or
(b) …NOT GUILTY.’
(iii) …Magistrate then ask: ‘…How do you Plea?
(iv) …If the answer is ‘…GUILTY,’ then there is ‘…NO TRIAL:
(v) …BRIEF FACTS (Not Evidence) is given to the Court by the ‘…POLICE PROSECUTOR.’
DROPPING THE GAVEL:
(vi)…Then the Magistrate ‘DROPS THE GAVEL.’
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NOW:
Should the answer be ‘…NOT GUILTY,’ then witnesses are called to the ‘…STAND,’ where:
(a) ‘…The ‘EVIDENCE IN CHIEF’ is led: then open to
(b) …EXAMINATION’ by the Defendant/Attorney: and
(c) …May be ‘…RE-EXAMINED’ by the Police Prosecutor.’
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MAGISTRATE DECIDES:
Should there be a: ‘…NO CASE SUBMISSION,’ by the ‘…DEFENDANT/Attorney,’ Trial Magistrate ‘SHALL’ entertain:
(d) ‘…LEGAL ARGUMENTS’ as it relates to making out of a ‘…PRIMA FACIE CASE’ by the ‘…PROSECUTION.’
(e) …The Prosecution is allowed to respond with ‘…COUNTER-LEGAL ARGUMENTS:
(f) …Magistrate then review the ‘ARGUMENTS’ then ‘DECIDES’ upon either:
(i) …Upholding a ‘…NO CASE SUBMISSION’ and call upon the Defendant to go on his/her ‘…DEFENCE.’
(ii) …This allows for the ‘…PRINCIPLE OF NATURAL JUSTICE: (Right to be heard).
(ii) …Should the ‘DEFENDANT’ opt not so to do, the Magistrate ‘…FINDS HIM GUILTY:
THE DANGLING GAVEL:
(iii) …Then the ‘…DANGLING GAVEL’ drops.
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INSTANT CASE
In the ‘…INSTANT CASE,’ there was no trial, as either:
(a) ‘…ADVISEDLY: or
(b) …OWN VOLITION,’ the Defendant ‘…PLEADED GUILTY.’
NOT SPARED:
Unfortunately, yet seemingly following the ‘…ESC SENTENCING GUIDELINES,’ whomever was the ‘MAGISTRATE,’ that received the ‘…BRIEF FACTS,’ he/she wa compelled, with telling effect, to: ‘…DROP THE GAVEL.’
CONFINE AND FINE
(i) ‘…A CUSTODIAL SENTENCE OF 0NE-YEAR: and
(ii) …A HEFTY FINE OF ‘…EC$10, 000’ on the ‘…GUILTY PLEA DEFENDANT.’
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None may raise ‘…QUERIES OVER THESE PENALTIES.’
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QUESTION:
WHICH IS MORE VALUABLE:
(i) ‘…POSSESSION OF AN ILLEGAL FIREARM: or
(ii) …HAVING FREEDOM/LIBERTY?’
In all honesty, though risky, in today’s society, ‘…ALL OF THE ABOVE.’
NOTWITHSTANDING, THAT WHICH TENDS TO BRING DEPRIVATION TO THESE, SHALL BE LEFT ALONE.
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WALK GOOD.
I wonder if those police guns are really stollen? I remember one say he put his gun on the police roof to go relief himself in the bushes, would anyone be so crazy to put their gun down and go into bushes?