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Subject: Re: Disclosing priors during a court case? Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2008 07:01:33 +1000

TomTom wrote...

> Apparently, his lawyer told the court, in the context of making a submission
> on penalty, that he had no prior convictions. This obviously amounted to
> misleading the court.

Should he have simply shut up about his somewhat chequered past, perhaps? And
this would not have become an issu?

> Do you feel any sympathy for this goose?

Not a bit. I'm just quering the point of law in the matter of raising priors
during a court case, is all.