Friday 23 February 2007

Perjury

The petition is entitled MAKE PERJURY CARRY AN EQUAL SENTENCE TO THE CRIME BEING TRIED and the explanatory notes say
An Accused person should be given three options, Not Guilty, Guilty or Guilty with a mitigating circumstance then someone pleading 'Guilty' would get the appropriate sentence whilst someone pleading 'Not Guilty'who is subsequently found to be Guilty would receive,automatically, a penalty for that perjury equal to the appropriate sentence for the crime committed. This would deal with the defective ruling which now rewards someone for a guilty plea even when they are caught 'redhanded'

The logic makes me very uncomfortable as a woolly liberal but never mind that - wow, this is going to do wonders for the prison population ..!

Further, I assume the last sentence should read "This would deal with the defective ruling which now rewards someone for a not guilty plea even when they are caught 'redhanded'". And I dispute the idea that people are rewarded for pleading not guilty - at best, they're not being punished as this petitioner thinks they should be. Surely?

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