I also agree with him about the "guilty plea" manouver being totally ill-conceived and corrupt. I think they should do away with the whole idea of someone getting off with a much lighter sentence because of an "early guilty plea".
If someone clearly lied to police and that is proven, then yes they should add that criminal act of perverting the course of justice on as part of their sentence. Lying to the police, making false statements... that's all criminal.
But this whole thing about "if you say you do it early on, then you'll get only a suspended sentence" malarky is messed up. That means that you mightn't have done the act at all but appeased them by pleading guilty because it looked like you did it. All of their records will then be wrong.
I would like to echo the advice of Mr. Fussy that whatever about pleading guilty if you did do it, you should never plead guilty if you didn't. It's an unnatural thing to do, worse than pleading innocent if you're guilty, corrupt to the core.
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Kevin Myers is trying to stay relevant and controversial in today's world, there are many people out there who would write a similar article... for example almost every punter. Along with the other hosts, he struggled in That's All We've Got Time for, he's probably sick of Challenging Times.... I think he would like to be in the public spotlight more and this is an easy avenue for that as it fulfills a lot of what he would like (controversial, actually be true and accurate, appealing to actually intelligent people and filtering out the pseudointellects from his life, appealing to people in the lower to middle class and not just the intellectually elite).... I think the latter is also what he was trying to do in That's All We've Got Time For.
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