A Christchurch judge has probably brought his tenure to a premature end after a comment from the bench in an opposed bail hearing. Brave and right but probably career-limiting.
Christchurch District Court Judge David Saunders made some very apt political comments from the bench about the government’s ridiculously popularist, but pisspoor “three strikes” legislation for punishing habitual offenders, most of whom are likely to be pisspoor and P-addicted.
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Let’s face it, the Government’s “three strikes” legislation is bad policy, but good politics. 
It might also get two little Hitlers a rub’n’tug from Laura Norder.
Getting tough on crime is pure populism. Criminologists are united in arguing that it doesn’t work for a bunch of reasons, but that doesn’t deter the little Hitlers.
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