That’s a very good question asked by not many after my column yesterday that described my nervous wait as a very learned District Court judge ponders my appeal against a Magistrate’s Court traffic conviction (post at bottom).
And a fair question, too, from anyone who’s seen the early artist’s work for the upcoming book of this amazing journey of mine through Queensland’s fair and balanced judicial system.
Gives a pretty clear indication about which way I’m thinking the judicial axe will fall. I suppose the simple answer for such pessimism is that I spent three years watching that system from very close range as probably The Courier-Mail’s best-ever magistrate’s court reporter they had at that time; well, after Jim O’Shea left me alone to fuck things up. It didn’t take me long to bolster an already held belief that the law is for the rich, not the poor; more often for the living than the dead.
So as I await His Honour’s decision to be brought down, it’s true that I began this journey thinking I had a snowball’s chance in hell of keeping a blemish-free driving record of almost 60 years. But that has now changed!
It’s now more than two weeks since the judge said he would rule no later than Friday fortnight ago. Is there just a chance that he might have had to consider other matters than a rather legalistic discussion right at the end with the police commissioner’s brief over mistake or law; mistake of fact matters? I think they might have been referring to a case first presented to me in an affidavit plonked on my desk on April 13 at the start of my appeal.
So forget the snowball analogy. I now reckon my chances are now about as good as that same snowball surviving in an air fryer for half an hour with the setting on super crisp!
But even so, as I stated in yesterday’s column, I’m rather proud of where we stand at the moment because I’ve fought hard to get there. Namely, His Honor having to consider the importance of a certificate that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has argued does not exist, and whether there is any basis to my claim that there’s an important section very relevant to our appeal case that should be in the lower-house court transcript but isn’t.
Okay, all together now!
Don Gordon-Brown
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