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Sarah Lavis

πŸ‘€ Speaker
545 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Let's just get over and done with.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

And I won't go to trial.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

All of it.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

And then you look at the court system and how many times during a day are people there just to adjourn a case?

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Yeah.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Like how much wasted time.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Yep.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

When they could just ring and say, okay, you get two adjournments, ring up, book in, that's it.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

But you have to go before the court, waste the time, put your case forward.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Like there's so much wasted time in a courtroom.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

I think that there needs to be more succinct laws where this is your crime, this is the time that you get, this is your time for parole.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

There's so much nuance and every judge can decide what they're going to put in, what they're not going to put in, how long are they going to go the minimum, the maximum.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

And I know that they say there's a lot of mitigating factors.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

I don't believe in mitigating factors.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

He stayed a bit longer because he refused to engage in the program.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

But a lot of them do that as a tactic so that when they're out, they're out and they're free.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

They're not on parole.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

They don't have to report.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Yes.

Australian True Crime
Should Victims Be The Focus In Court?

Yeah.