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Remember this dude who walked up to the valet attendant at Crown and schmoozed his way into them handing over the keys to the $350,000 car which wasn't his..?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/794210...led-four-months

Kinkstaah, I was going to post the same thing. Unfortunately this is how the court system works. Almost all the sentences are concurrent almost giving crooks free rein to go on crime spree once they know they will be going inside. Who cares if you go to jail for 1 crime or 1000 if the sentence is exactly the same. He must have some serious prior history and done A LOT of frauds to get 35 months.

yes I realise the article says the 4 months is being served concurrently, but the judges comments about the sentencing were interesting:

Chief Magistrate Ian Gray said the crime was "bizarre" but not significant enough to warrant a tougher sentence.

"I accept that this was a spontaneous act," he said. "There are no aggravating circumstances of this crime which call for an additional period (of imprisonment) to be served," he said.

This implies that the crime was not considered significant enough to be more harsh in sentencing, regardless of whether or not there was an existing sentence for other matters.

Van isn't happy about how soft the penalty is either. I'm continually giving him sh|t about it.

The poker community still thinks it was a publicity stunt by Full Tilt Poker to promote his promotion to becoming a sponsored pro.

He's now trading up to a 458 pretty soon.

He would have only got 4 months because it was a Ferrari and in the media and sentence was irrelevant due to his other matters. Could steal 100 Skylines and would only get a suspended sentence or similar normally.

This is how the court system works. Crooks go on crime wave and then Adjourn matters over and over so in the end it all the matters get heard at once, then they plea guilty and everything gets wrapped into one and all the sentences are consolidated.

There is no deterrence at court and this is why most proper crooks continually re-offend.

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