Chair Tossing Incident
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Would it have been super minor if someone was killed? She is just lucky no one was hit. One of the chairs smashed in or by the outdoor bikes racks of a condo building. There easily could have been someone in that area. If it hit someone in the head they would have been either seriously hurt or killed. When someone randomly shoots a bullet into an apartment building and no one gets hit, is that considered super minor?
She can ask the charges be dropped but it will never happen. Yes, she has been kicked out of her dental hygienist program at school, and no one will hire her for being so reckless. They can not take a chance that she will not do this at their business. She is the author of her own misfortune.
Of course she does. The concept of personal responsibility is lost on a lot of people.
Like I said about this one, risking their lives like that, she could have at least swallowed!
She is asking for a discharge, not for the charges to be dropped. And the Crown is not agreeing to that resolution. So all the usual "soft on crime" posts are misplaced.
I'm betting that she was kicked out of her dental hygienist program for non attendance and / or poor grades. Doesn't sound like she's top of the class.
Not up on sentencing in this type of crime, but my off the cuff guess is $3,000.00 fine and probation. She's stupid, not malicious. And the judge will probably see it as a wake up call.
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Well, what would your suggestion for sentence be?
Bear in mind:
1. She is 19.
2. Presumably she has no criminal record.
3. She is not the brightest.
4. She cooperated with police by surrendering and admitting that she committed the crime.
5. No one - fortunately - got hurt.
Strikes me that she needs to know that she can't ever do this again; that the incident was POTENTIALLY too dangerous to let her walk away scot free. OTOH, no harm was done and she is a first offender.
Anxious to hear your reasoning.
I would say he's guess is going to be pretty accurate. You know how many people that are charged in Ontario each year with impaired driving? Non of them get jail time unless it's maybe a second conviction or it's more serious like they caused an accident and killed someone.
You don't get sentenced for why might have happened, you get sentenced for what did happen.
AS I agree with you our justice system is a joke, I don't understand how it pertains to this. She wants the charges to be dropped, it doesn't say anything about our legal system going easy on her or reducing any penalties. That's just her lawyer trying to do his job.
The current court system is geared more towards giving leniency to criminals than punishment, a movement more towards rehabilitation than responsibility for a party's actions. The court of public opinion is what it is and is often more scathing than sentencing. This lady has been expelled from her dental hygiene program Perhaps other programs and not necessarily dental hygiene may not want the notoriety or publicity of being associated with her. If she does complete the dental hygiene program, could the province of Ontario through the College of Dental Hygienist have a case for deny her a license? Most if not all of the Regulated Health Professions in Ontario request that their members disclose their criminal records. Even if she managed to get a dental hygienist license going forward would this monkey on her back discourage a dental office from hiring her?
She works or has works as a "bottle service girl" which likely has exposed her to the sex trade and illegal drugs such as cocaine or ecstasy. She seems to have been moving towards have a career in health care. Could a loss at a chance of becoming a dental hygienist push her more towards the sex trade? Maybe her legal council might argue along thes lines.
I would have given her at least 30 days in jail for her actions, for the sheer reckless disregard for human life and as a deterrent for other like minded individuals.
After a couple of months to think about this I really hope she realizes how fortunate she is that no one got hurt or worse. I wonder what she would be looking at if her actions did cause an injures or death.
