Cannabis smoker Junior Tranter has told a judge he will endeavour to come off the drug he has been taking since he was 14.That's a nice word, isn't it - 'endeavour'. It means 'try'.
Are we sure he'll try? Is the judge? I mean, surely not?
Judge Jamie Tabor QC said...Oh. Well. That says it all.
...before he sentenced him: "I want an assurance from you. There is no point me suspending your sentence if you are going to go straight back out and smoke cannabis because you will fail and you will just put off the evil day you end up in custody."
Tranter replied: "I definitely am willing to try, for sure."*sigh* He isn't even promising to try, he's just saying he's willing to!
I always wondered if mitigating Briefs ever wondered what tossers they sounded. I always felt they'd get more respect if they just said, `your worships, my client is a c--- so ask yourselves a question, do you feel lucky`?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair to Junior, I don't think his command of the subtleties of the English language would enable him to distinguish between an undertaking "to try" and and undertaking "to be willing to try". The judge, on the other hand, being in his 60s and thus probably the beneficiary of a sound (state or private) education knows exactly what Junior is (or is not) signing up to. Whatever, talk is cheap and such undertakings are cheap. Junior would have been mad not to make his promise and get off (essentially) scot-free.
ReplyDeleteThe law on drugs is an ass.
ReplyDeleteWhy waste resources on such things is beyond me.
Umbongo - "To be fair to Junior, I don't think his command of the subtleties of the English language would enable him to distinguish between an undertaking "to try" and and undertaking "to be willing to try". The judge, on the other hand, being in his 60s and thus probably the beneficiary of a sound (state or private) education knows exactly what Junior is (or is not) signing up to.
ReplyDelete*Twilight Zone music*
Precisely what I was goin to say... albeit with different words...pedants unite !
The judge should have pulled him up on his choice of language but didn't so as not to give The Game away.
Ah but we see what he did there...
The 27-year-old was convicted of possession of the class B drug with intent to supply last month... Tranter was in a car pulled over by police when a sports bag of the drug was found... A later search of his home found more of the drug and the haul totalled around £3,226.
ReplyDeleteDefending, Sarah Jenkins said unemployed Tranter's dealing was not for financial gain, but to feed his own habit.
Was Judge Jamie asleep during the earlier part of the case? You know, the bit where the facts were given and the part where the accused was actually found guilty of possession with intent to supply?
Whether Tranter was sampling his wares seems to be missing the point. I would have thought that a promise to definitely willing to try not to ply his trade might have been a more worthy goal.
Well this was his only his first brush with the law.
ReplyDelete....ah sorry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7926059/Judges-fury-at-insolent-defendant.html
"I always wondered if mitigating Briefs ever wondered what tossers they sounded."
ReplyDeleteI suspect they console themselves with huge piles of legal aid cash...
"The law on drugs is an ass.
Why waste resources on such things is beyond me."
Because people stoned out of their skulls on drugs don't make for a great society.
"Was Judge Jamie asleep during the earlier part of the case?"
Quite!