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Jo Maugham QC @JolyonMaugham
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Not a comment on sentencing law - I'm not qualified to express a view - but I can't recall another sentencing decision that has left me feeling more outraged about what it is that the law seems to attach value to. Solidarity to the Frack Free Four. theguardian.com/environment/20…
Simon Roscoe Blevins - one of the four - has written movingly here on why he acted as he did. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fracking…
A lawyer says to me "nuisance is so rarely prosecuted that there are virtually no Court of Appeal authorities on... sentencing guidelines. It gives the judge enormous discretion." So the sentence can be little more than a personal value judgment about the quality of the conduct.
Another says: "Looks to me like a sentence passed for political grandstanding during the trial." Which (of course) isn't a criminal offence and is not something a judge should punish a defendant for.

Let's hope there will be an appeal to correct what feels profoundly wrong.
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