[2006]JRC191
ROYAL COURT
(Samedi Division)
15th December 2006
Before :
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Sir Philip Bailhache, Kt., Bailiff, and
Jurats Le Brocq and Liddiard.
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The Attorney General
-v-
G (a minor)
Sentencing by the Inferior
Number of the Royal Court,
on guilty pleas to:
1 count of:
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Obstructing a Police Officer (Count 1).
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1 count of:
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Resisting arrest (Count 2).
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Age: 16.
Plea: Guilty
Details of Offence:
G is a 16 year old who was bound
over by the Royal Court on 6th January, 2006 for a single offence of
larceny of an iPod. She breached
this Binding Over Order in August 2006 by obstructing a police officer and
resisting arrest; tried to intervene when officers were arresting a friend of
hers; refused to leave when told to do so, was arrested and then kicked the
arresting officer.
Details of Mitigation:
Youth, limited record -
submitted that custody was wrong in principle.
Previous Convictions:
Larceny; malicious damage (2006).
Conclusions:
4 weeks' youth detention.
Sentence and Observations of Court:
12 months'
probation.
M. T. Jowitt, Esq., Crown Advocate.
Advocate S. E. Fitz for the Defendant.
JUDGMENT
THE BAILIFF:
1.
Prison is not
a nice place to be, particularly at your age, and we do not want to send you
there. On the other hand we are not
going to put up with the kind of behaviour which you showed towards those
police officers on an occasion when you had been drinking too much and you
should not have been drinking at all.
2.
We are
going to place you on probation for a period of 1 year and it is a condition of
the probation order that you be of good behaviour during that time, that you
live and work as directed by your Probation Officer and that you engage in all
the programmes which the Probation Officer will lay out for you.
3.
We are
doing this because we take at face value what you have said to us in your
letter, that you are really sorry for your unacceptable behaviour. We do not wish to see you again, but we
want to make it absolutely clear to you that you have to comply very carefully
with everything that the Probation Officer tells you to do, you have to turn up
when you are told to turn up and not behave in the stroppy manner in which you
behaved in front of the Probation Officer on the last occasion.
No Authorities