Atkinson blasts senior magistrate as ‘daft’ and ‘delusional’
Jamie Walker: The Advertiser | June 13, 2008
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23856671-5006301,00.html
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Michael Atkinson has called a senior magistrate “daft” and “delusional” for calling for jail overcrowding to be factored into sentencing.
The ferocity of the criticism from Mr Atkinson, of deputy chief magistrate Andrew Cannon yesterday stunned the Adelaide legal community.
Mr Atkinson’s office was on the back foot last night to justify his language, and some of the grounds he had used to blast Dr Cannon, who is an adjunct professor of law and the state’s senior mining warden.
Mr Atkinson launched …
