When Judge Ingrid Stigum put right in confession case against Northug Thursday, is already the proposal from the Public Prosecutor Bjorn K. Soknes before her on the table. What criminal prosecution advocates known Norwegian skier shall be imposed, is not yet known, although the proposal was sent court already 19 September.
What will be the outcome might affect the upcoming season in critical direction for 28-year-old. May he zone in prison, he deferred sentence for ski season is finished or he can zone with ankle bracelet? This question is up to Correctional Services to determine. Neither the court or the prosecution has no influence on how a sentence can be carried out.
Several prominent lawyers and experts in criminal law said Northug should expect to serve prison when the charges became known on September 16.
– The indictment is overall very, very serious, said attorney Carl Bore VG and think Northug must expect a sentence of at least two months’ imprisonment.
Drilling, which has also been a judge of the district court believes it would be wrong to leave the zone known Norwegian skier get home with the ankle bracelet. By rule, unconditional imprisonment from four months and shorter zone with ankle bracelet, but it must be applied to the Correctional Service, which will consider whether it is appropriate on a case by case basis.
Recent figures from the Correctional Service show that 288 people out of a total capacity of 342 zones punishment with ankle bracelet. With a soningskø of about 1,300 people working continuously for more convicts of the scheme. The system of tethers has for several years been a trial reserved some parts of the country, but from May this year made nationwide.
– In my view it would not be right to allow the ankle bracelet. Trooper Mann did not get it in such a case, it will soon become unequal treatment compared to the average citizen, said Boring.
Northug is charged with having violated five provisions of the Road Traffic Act. Besides riding with a blood alcohol of 1.65′s prosecutors also emphasized that Northug was too fast, he drove recklessly and leaving the injured companion in the car without notifying the police.
Prosecutors believe the skier must lose certificate “forever”, which means in practice five years.
Most serious is the last point in the indictment where Northug is prosecuted under the Criminal Code provisions on false accusation because he is three times the day after the accident, said it was his friend and not he himself who drove the car.
In a fourth interview, twelve hours after the descent, Northug acknowledged that he was the driver of the car. The same day the indictment was announced, was Northug also a new interview where he was confronted with the final accusations against him, and how he confessed on all points.
Law Professor Alf Petter Northug Högberg has warned against going for a tilståelsesdom.
– It would be stupid of him to go for a tilståelsesdom. Then I fear that he may be judged more stringent, for the indictment contains probably some errors. That he admits the facts, is not the same as admitting guilt by paragraphs prosecutor uses, said Hogberg. (AFP)
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