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Baz[_3_] · 17-08-2011, 01:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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In article , Baz
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Was it a judge or a magistrate?

Magistrates can only sentence to a maximum of 6 months in jail for an
offence. (Although they can go up to a year for multiple offences, I
think). If the sentence needs to be higher than that, they have to pass
the case (or just the sentencing part of it) up to the crown court.

Yes but why does a magistrate give a known violent criminal bail, and who
also has absconded previously? The same magistrate remanded a shoplifter
into custody. I can't make sense of it.

Baz