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Carroll Has Been Charged With Assault


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What could he be facing if he is found guilty?

 

A severe ticking off?

 

Don't know the details but sounds like something and nothing TBH. I know footballers should be more careful, but I wonder if they also attract harsher treatment from the police and CPS.

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What could he be facing if he is found guilty?

 

Not prison, a fine and maybe some community service.

 

I dunno, a judge wouldn't make an example of a footballer like Gerrard, but someone lower down the food chain with less impact and they could feel it's their duty to tear the lad a new one. I'm sure a lot of people out there would love to see him go down just because he's a footballer, there's even a large % of our own fans who want to see it happen.

 

 

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What could he be facing if he is found guilty?

 

Not prison, a fine and maybe some community service.

 

I dunno, a judge wouldn't make an example of a footballer like Gerrard, but someone lower down the food chain with less impact and they could feel it's their duty to tear the lad a new one. I'm sure a lot of people out there would love to see him go down just because he's a footballer, there's even a large % of our own fans who want to see it happen.

 

 

 

It's magistrates not a Judge. (Might be a district Judge mind, but still)...

 

There is no chance he'll go to prison, no one would, unless they spat in the magistrates' faces, he'll probably just get a fine without the community service and people will say he got off lightly because he is a footballer, when in reality he got the same everyone else does.

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no info on there about what level of assualt he has been charged with?  the end result will depend on this.

 

If it involved a glass though as rported in the press, its likely to be more than a slap on the wrist or a haircut.

 

also everyone has their first appearance at mags court, it may well be that the case gets heard at crown.

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generically labelled as assault but will be battery.

 

First offence, i'll go for a fine, providing no mitigating factors are involved. Unless he gets a twatty mag who wants to prove a bit of a point and get his name in the press, then he will get some com service for like 10 hours.

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In England and Wales, a person guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum, or to both.

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In England and Wales, a person guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the prescribed sum, or to both.

 

Have you not heard that prisons are quite full? He's not going to prison, it took a string of at least similar offences by Joey Barton for him to go in prison for 6 weeks ffs, no chance.

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What were Barton's string of offences?

 

Barton has found himself at the centre of controversy outside football. In May 2005 he broke a 35-year-old pedestrian's leg while driving his car through Liverpool city centre at 2 am.[111] He was arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage after an alleged argument with a taxi driver in Liverpool while going to his hotel after a match on 13 March 2007.[112] He was cleared of this charge in May 2008.[113] On 27 December 2007, Barton was arrested on suspicion of assault in the Church Street area of Liverpool city centre following an incident which took place at 5:30 am.[114] He was remanded in custody on 28 December since the alleged offence was committed whilst he was on bail for two prior offences; the presiding magistrate noted "I also have to consider the safety of the public - you lashed out indiscriminately".[115] He was later charged with common assault and affray, and was sentenced to six months in prison on 20 May 2008.

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So he wasn't convicted of anything before being sent to prison then, though he was on bail at the time of that offence which counted against him. Carroll has a very recent caution for assault. He might do time, he might not, may depend on his plea - don't count your chickens though, use of a weapon is a big aggravating factor.

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