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Here’s yet more reasons to start jailing judges. For once, though, we’re not dealing with tilty-headed middle-aged women. We’re dealing with tilty-headed men, including a criminal in judicial robes.
The first case is a brazen sexual assault, in broad daylight, in a public park.
A young Townsville man has avoided conviction after sexually assaulting a woman in broad daylight at Riverway.
Funny, they forgot to insert the standard ‘Proud First Nations’ appellation for once.
Joshua John Salee appeared in Townsville Magistrates Court on Monday, just shy of two months after the assault took place.
The court heard that on February 1, Salee noticed a woman lying on a picnic rug and reading a book at Riverway Complex.
Clearly, she was asking for it.
Police prosecutor Tasman Murphy said the woman saw the 19-year-old move around her while she was lying on her stomach wearing swimwear.
“[Salee] has momentarily placed his hand or his fingers, between her legs in the centre of her pubic region,” he said.
The woman immediately reported the incident, and when police questioned Salee, he said “it was mad, mad, really mad lust, just mad lust bro.”
Ah, yes, like those ‘sexual emergencies’ which lead Middle Eastern migrants to rape boys at German swimming pool.
Mr Murphy said Salee’s behaviour was “alarming,” and concerning that it occurred in broad daylight at a busy public place.
“The community did not expect nor accept this type of behaviour, despite the defendant’s ‘mad, mad lust’,” he said.
The judge took an astonishingly more lenient line.
Magistrate Steven Mosch said […] “You are, of course, still a young man, aged 19, and your youth might go some way towards explaining this foolish conduct on your part,” he said.
No, ‘foolish youth conduct’ is breaking into the liquor cabinet while mum and dad are out or nicking a packet of fags from the local shop. This is sexual assault.
Eh, potayto potahto, says the judge airily.
Salee pleaded guilty to a single charge of sexual assault, and was handed a 12 month probation order.
No conviction was recorded.
Wow. Just as well he didn’t kill anyone. The judge might have given him a $1,000 bond.
Khaliyal Elijah Burney, a 23 year old Charlotte driver, is at the centre of a fatal crash that killed eight-year-old Nyomi Summers. His past record, low bond release, and the tragic details of the incident have sparked outrage, raising serious questions about road safety and repeat offenders.
Burney mowed down eight-year-old Nyomi Summers when she was riding her bike while at a friend’s house for a sleepover.
Yet, despite a record as long as your arm for driving offences – records indicate that Burney has more than 100 entries in local court databases, especially related to driving – Burney was initially let go on an unsecured bond of just $1,000. It was only increased to $20,000 after an outcry and more charges.
His father pleaded that he wuz a good boy who din’ do nuffin’, “someone who made a mistake rather than a criminal”.
People living in the area say Burney was known for speeding on the same street, which has a 25mph limit. One neighbour said the crash could have been avoided if he had slowed down.
Guess he made a lot of ‘mistakes’.
Possibly, though, Roderick Davis, the judge who ordered the insultingly low bond felt something of an affinity for black men who break the law. He’s one of them, after all.
Two Mecklenburg County judges pleaded guilty to misdemeanor notary crimes on Friday.
District Court judges Roderick Davis and Shanté Burke-Hayer committed the violations before they were elected – when they shared an office space in May 2022, their lawyers said in court. The charges came after an investigation by the North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, sparked when Burke-Hayer’s client filed a complaint.
Davis pleaded guilty to administering an oath without a principal and two counts of taking an acknowledgment without a principal […]
In court, their lawyers acknowledged that both violated state statutes. There was no bad intent, they said.
Who knows, at this rate, a killer driver could end up on the Supreme Court.
