Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Christine Peet,
+lots!
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Campbell Larsen,
Over the course of a day, the judges approve about 35% of prisoners’ applications for parole. But the approval rate declines steadily in the two hours before lunch, almost to zero just before the lunch break. Immediately after lunch, it spikes to 65% and then again declines steadily. If you’re a prisoner, the number of years you spend behind bars could be affected significantly by whether your parole application happens to be the last one on the judge’s stack before lunch or the first one after.
I was told that a similar effect is noticed if the judge was trying to ignore the call of nature...
Surely not?
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Kaitaia’s pioneering recycling programme had been a model for other schemes around the country.
We are in the FN often, we're seriously into recycling and have found the depots up there extremely well run.
26 years is a testament to sustainability....I wonder how long the new boys will last?
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Access: Persistent Polio, in reply to TracyMac,
Good luck getting a Big Pharma megacorp to give up its IP for the common good these days.
....because there's gold in them there 'ills...
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to David Tong,
So, the Law is an ass, and a blind one at that....
'toon, please...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10816925
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to David Tong,
Pleading not guilty cannot legally be an aggravating factor
Hah! another time, another place, perhaps, I would like to tell you a wee story....
But...
I'm not in jail...(luckily)
And it shouldn't come down to luck for chrissakes...
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/281065/show-us-ya-text,-say-tpp-protesters
Clever Young People protest the TPPA...at MFaT!
Yes!
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Yep, and personally, with a shitload of prejudice, believe that parents need every brain cell unimpaired to do right by their kids.
This issue is not, IMHO, about Cannabis Law.
This is about gross inconsistency in sentencing within the framework of existing law.
I admit to an almost obsessive compulsion to find enough information that would lead me to better understand something that makes no sense...to me.
I am, with this case, extremely frustrated.
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and in a weird twist of fate, a practice nurse in the UK in the early sixties contracted a mild form of polio from the vaccine.
I knew this person, there may have been others.
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11408241
Three Kaikohe men have since been jailed for their part in the attack.