The Nameless One
Morgan BellChristopher Wayne Hudson
September 24th 2008 02:05
Melbourne CBD shooter, Christopher Hudson was sentenced yesterday in the Melbourne County Court for a minimum term of 35 years. Justice Coughlan conceeded that hudson was remorseful but discounted witness statements that he attempted suicide after the shootings. Simply stating that he had emptied the clip in to the bystanders. Justice Coughlan also stated that despite drug and steroid use and being of low intellect, his psychiatrist discounted and psychiatiric condition as contributing to his actions and thus he was solely responsible. Helping father Brendan Keilar and Dutch backpacker Paul De Waard were shot by hudson when they trtied to help Keara Douglas. Justice Coughlan described the moment when Keilar fell to the ground and was shot again, saying simply,
It is interesting to note that in such a high profile case, the judge delivered fairly comprehensive reasons for his sentencing. It has long been debated by Victorian Law Reform advocates that Judges should be made to state comprehensive reasons to the court for all sentences that they deliver. It is little surprise that Judges and Magistrates alike met this with all the fury their white-haired heads could muster. Reasons against it include that they already have enough things to consider in cases and that this would delay cases even longer. It is this authors belief that such a sorry excuse should not be accepted. Judges have, for too long, been accountable to no one for why they make decisions. They oppose this proposition not because it delays cases, but because they may then be critiqued and questioned accurately. It is diffucult to refute what someone has done when you don't why or how they came to that conclusion. It is time for Justices to come to terms with the idea that they are responsible to hte people that they serve, not who serve them.
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You executed him.
Chris Hudson CBD Shooting
It is interesting to note that in such a high profile case, the judge delivered fairly comprehensive reasons for his sentencing. It has long been debated by Victorian Law Reform advocates that Judges should be made to state comprehensive reasons to the court for all sentences that they deliver. It is little surprise that Judges and Magistrates alike met this with all the fury their white-haired heads could muster. Reasons against it include that they already have enough things to consider in cases and that this would delay cases even longer. It is this authors belief that such a sorry excuse should not be accepted. Judges have, for too long, been accountable to no one for why they make decisions. They oppose this proposition not because it delays cases, but because they may then be critiqued and questioned accurately. It is diffucult to refute what someone has done when you don't why or how they came to that conclusion. It is time for Justices to come to terms with the idea that they are responsible to hte people that they serve, not who serve them.
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