• Bali teen gets 23c fine but family pays big price
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[img]http://resources2.news.com.au/cs/newscomau/v2/_shared/base/css/images/icons/homepage-title.png[/img] Source: [url]http://www.news.com.au/world/bali-boy-handed-two-month-sentence-for-drug-offences/story-e6frfkyi-1226206645645[/url] [img]http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/11/25/1226206/182868-bali-boy-sentencing.jpg[/img] The 14-year-old Australian boy is handed a two-month sentence for drug offences. Picture: Johannes P Christo [release] • Bali teen sentenced to two months' jail for buying marijuana • Court takes into account time spent in jail since October 4 • Teen, 14, expected to return to Australia by next weekend • [url=http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/so-the-bali-boy-will-outta-the-joint-for-christmas/]The Punch: So "Bali boy" will be outta the joint by Chrissie[/url] [B]HIS fine for buying cannabis on a Bali street was just 23c, but the legal cost of fighting drug charges will cost an Australian teenager's family about $100,000.[/B] The 14-year-old was found guilty of buying drugs and sentenced to two months' jail, The Daily Telegraph reported. He will be eligible for release on Sunday next week, because of time already spent in detention. The teen was also ordered to pay 2000 rupiah in court costs - the equivalent of about 23c. But Indonesian legal experts said the total cost of fighting the charges in the four-week case would amount to about $100,000. "He has had daily face-to-face contact with his lawyer. It doesn't come cheap, not even in Bali," a legal source said.[/release] [img]http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/11/25/1226206/182865-bali-boy-sentencing.jpg[/img] [I]The 14-year-old Australian boy is escorted into Denpasar Court for sentencing. Picture: Johannes P Christo[/I] [release] The prosecution asked for three months' jail, but Judge Amser Simanjuntak said the boy was young, had never been charged before and had shown remorse. The judge said he had to consider the negative impact the boy's arrest had on relations between Australia and Indonesia. "Our aim in criminalising this (case) is not for revenge, but it should serve as a deterrent for others not to follow his actions," Judge Amser said. "But his action gave a negative image to Bali as a tourist destination." He sentenced the boy to two months' jail, backdated to the day of his arrest - meaning he will be free to return home on December 4. The youth, from the NSW Central Coast, sat through the sentencing with a newspaper shielding his face from dozens of cameras. He cried when the sentence was handed down. The boy's father, wearing a cap and sunglasses, stood behind his son, his hand squeezing the boy's shoulder for support. His lawyer Muhammad Rifan said he was relieved the boy would be home in time for Christmas. The teenager was caught on October 4 buying 3.6g of cannabis from a street seller in the Kuta district. His trial was complicated when it was revealed his parents engaged an agent to secure a lucrative media deal. Indonesian authorities deemed it "disrespectful" to profit from a crime. Mr Rifan said he met the boy's parents on Thursday about the possibility of selling their story once the boy is back in Australia, but would not comment on what was decided. "You would have to ask the parents that," he said.[/release]
All this hassle for something as simple as marijuana, what a waste of time, money and life. . .
they would have been able to bribe their way out if the media didn't uncover that it happened as soon as the media got a hold of it, it went political
And of course, the rumours of the kids family wanting to sell their story to media for 6 figures didn't help either.
So i buy a few grams of almost completely harmless drug and i get two months in jail and 100.000$ fine? Stay classy,World
[QUOTE=znk666;33445649]So i buy a few grams of almost completely harmless drug and i get two months in jail and 100.000$ fine? Stay classy,World[/QUOTE] Nope, you buy a few grams of almost completely harmless drug, get two months in jail (back dated to first arrest date), a 23 cent fine, and a $100,000 bill from the lawyer. Completely different
Why is it legal battles cost as much as a house? Is there a reason for it other than greedy little shits doing it because they can?
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;33445869]Is there a reason for it other than greedy little shits doing it because they can?[/QUOTE] Because they're highly trained professionals who have spent several years of their life studying Law. So yeah, just because they can.
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;33446369]Because they're highly trained professionals who have spent several years of their life studying Law. So yeah, just because they can.[/QUOTE] What a load of shit, Lawyers are cheats... they ruin people's lives. - Experienced it. (Also, at least in Australia, it is very easy to get a law degree... 2 years study that is by the _books_. Any fuckwit can do it and then "legitimately" rob people of their lively hoods. No profession in the world other than being a lawyer can charge you BEFORE they do their work and then just fuck off on you for what ever reason they'd like to make up, "conflict of interest". They are not held accountable, I assure you that. Lawyers have their own under ground mafia going on mate.
[QUOTE=My Infection;33447035]What a load of shit, Lawyers are cheats... they ruin people's lives. - Experienced it. (Also, at least in Australia, it is very easy to get a law degree... 2 years study that is by the _books_. Any fuckwit can do it and then "legitimately" rob people of their lively hoods. No profession in the world other than being a lawyer can charge you BEFORE they do their work and then just fuck off on you for what ever reason they'd like to make up, "conflict of interest". They are not held accountable, I assure you that. Lawyers have their own under ground mafia going on mate.[/QUOTE] I can't do law so therefore lawyers are bad.
Because they're all out of jobs. Go to law school right now, and you'll get an excellent job at the starbucks you worked at for the four prior years.
Geez. He bought canabis and they arrest him for that ? They should rather arrest the people who sell it, doing the opposite is pointless.
I once saw a religion-based comic that pretty much summed it up: Jesus: Hey God, remember the humans? God: Those beings I created some thousands of years ago? Jesus: Yeah, those. God: What about them? Jesus: They're killing each other, destroying the planet, you have to do something about it! God: Didn't I give them a plant to prevent that? Jesus: They made it illegal. God: *facepalm*
This boy committed the ultimate crime. Justice has been served.
Thats bullshit if so i do a crime every day, fuck this world
[QUOTE=fredstin22;33446111]It could of been worse. If he was an adult and not a minor....look out![/QUOTE] They don't have a different system for trying minors so he was tried as an adult.
[QUOTE=DeanWinchester;33448515]I once saw a religion-based comic that pretty much summed it up: Jesus: Hey God, remember the humans? God: Those beings I created some thousands of years ago? Jesus: Yeah, those. God: What about them? Jesus: They're killing each other, destroying the planet, you have to do something about it! God: Didn't I give them a plant to prevent that? Jesus: They made it illegal. God: *facepalm*[/QUOTE] I posted that comic in LMAO pics :v:
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