Friday the 13th
It's Friday the 13th in courtroom one, floor two of the Miramichi courthouse.
It's not much of a day outside, dark, dreary and a good day to be inside somewhere's warm. Most of the people in here today would probably agree, if they were anywhere else.
For some in here, the 13th will be a lucky day, for others ... not so much.
Gerald Augustine, 44, of Burnt Church is in custody, charged with causing a disturbance by being drunk at the local Salvation Army Oct. 5.
He pled guilty. Lordon reviews Augustine's lengthy criminal record.
"Ordinarily this would only require a tongue lashing," Crown prosecutor Bill Richards said to judge Denis Lordon.
"You think a tongue lashing's gonna work on Mr. Augustine with a record four pages long?"
"Three pages," defense lawyer Graham Sleeth says.
"Three pages long. If we were using long paper I guess it could be on one page."
Augustine laughs and nods. Then he explains how he got into this mess to Lordon.
"I don't drink often, but when I do ..."
"You do a good job of it," Lordon finishes for him, a smile on his face.
Augustine nods again. He's smiling too. Lordon hands down sentence.
"Sixteen days served and I'm gonna top it up with another 30 days.
"Thirty days? Thank you, your Honour!"
Both Lordon and Augustine are grinning as he's led away.
"Nothing like keeping everybody happy," Lordon says.
There's a brief recess. I wander into the hallway, take a look out the window at my world. Green leaves are fighting a losing battle with red and yellow ones. There'll be snow soon.
Back inside, a young woman is charged with failing to appear in court. Crown prosecutor Bill Richards says it's not the first time and the only reason she's even her today was because police arrested her when they attended a domestic disturbance call and found her there.
"I don't know what we have to do to get her here," Richards told judge Lordon.
Lordon does. He remands her to custody.
"Just by virtue of the fact that that you persistently fail to appear in court after being given chance after chance," Lordon said."You can only stretch the patience of the court so far."
She's taken away.
Leonard Gerard Nash, 55, of White Rapids is the last matter in Lordon's court.Nash was charged in December with dealing cocaine, marijuana and oxycodone. More than $6,000 in cash were found in bundles in his freezer and a whole pile of drugs are found throughout the house. Nash makes more than $80,000 a year running a trucking company, by the way.
Lordon gives him 20 months.
There were tears in the room from some of his family members as Nash was led away.
The 13th is done. Outside, the wind tastes like wood smoke. It'll snow soon.
It's not much of a day outside, dark, dreary and a good day to be inside somewhere's warm. Most of the people in here today would probably agree, if they were anywhere else.
For some in here, the 13th will be a lucky day, for others ... not so much.
Gerald Augustine, 44, of Burnt Church is in custody, charged with causing a disturbance by being drunk at the local Salvation Army Oct. 5.
He pled guilty. Lordon reviews Augustine's lengthy criminal record.
"Ordinarily this would only require a tongue lashing," Crown prosecutor Bill Richards said to judge Denis Lordon.
"You think a tongue lashing's gonna work on Mr. Augustine with a record four pages long?"
"Three pages," defense lawyer Graham Sleeth says.
"Three pages long. If we were using long paper I guess it could be on one page."
Augustine laughs and nods. Then he explains how he got into this mess to Lordon.
"I don't drink often, but when I do ..."
"You do a good job of it," Lordon finishes for him, a smile on his face.
Augustine nods again. He's smiling too. Lordon hands down sentence.
"Sixteen days served and I'm gonna top it up with another 30 days.
"Thirty days? Thank you, your Honour!"
Both Lordon and Augustine are grinning as he's led away.
"Nothing like keeping everybody happy," Lordon says.
There's a brief recess. I wander into the hallway, take a look out the window at my world. Green leaves are fighting a losing battle with red and yellow ones. There'll be snow soon.
Back inside, a young woman is charged with failing to appear in court. Crown prosecutor Bill Richards says it's not the first time and the only reason she's even her today was because police arrested her when they attended a domestic disturbance call and found her there.
"I don't know what we have to do to get her here," Richards told judge Lordon.
Lordon does. He remands her to custody.
"Just by virtue of the fact that that you persistently fail to appear in court after being given chance after chance," Lordon said."You can only stretch the patience of the court so far."
She's taken away.
Leonard Gerard Nash, 55, of White Rapids is the last matter in Lordon's court.Nash was charged in December with dealing cocaine, marijuana and oxycodone. More than $6,000 in cash were found in bundles in his freezer and a whole pile of drugs are found throughout the house. Nash makes more than $80,000 a year running a trucking company, by the way.
Lordon gives him 20 months.
There were tears in the room from some of his family members as Nash was led away.
The 13th is done. Outside, the wind tastes like wood smoke. It'll snow soon.
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