Re: And.. getting there.

In message <pan.2007.01.30.00.49.42.99370@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
warwick <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I've just spoken to the police. They had intended to come round at 8pm.

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The stupid scrote who attacked me is pleading 'not guilty'.

At one point he had the opportunity to accept a 'caution' and it would
have been all over then.

He might be multi-tasking...

When I was assaulted many moons ago by a drunk, he too pleaded Not
Guilty. There were witnesses, the police found him a few hundred yards
down the road from the bus-stop he had attacked me at with fragments of
my glasses embedded in his knuckles, he was, as they say, known to them
of old etc. etc.

It turned out the court, in a display of sensible scheduling had booked
him in for two appearances on the same day. In the morning he pleaded
guilty to assorted other offences and received a fine and was bound over
to keep the peace. His hope was that the afternoon's case of common
assault would collapse (police officers or witnesses don't turn up,
paperwork goes wrong etc.) and he'd get away with it. When his brief saw
that the case was going to go ahead, a plea was entered and he was
sentenced to, as I recall, six months (he was known to the judge of old,
too).

Instead he's going to spout bullshit to a jury.

Not too likely. I suspect the same thing will happen -- when it's clear
the case is going to proceed and nothing's gone wrong (no evidence lost,
witnesses lined up etc.), his brief will stand up and tell the judge
that his client wishes to change his plea to guilty. Alternatively a
deal will be done and a lesser charge agreed to, before a court date is
set.
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