Hi all. I am appealing a sentence of imprisonment of 3 months and a nine month CBO due to a breach of suspended sentence imposed from driving offences.
Long story short, I breached it by assault that I felt threatened in. But I threw the first punch and went a little overboard. This was after a verbal argument with my partner. The male approached me from a pub with alcohol on he's breath and got in my face.
I have the option of appealing the conviction but my solicitor is saying that he thinks we won't beat the charge of assault. As I think it was in the lines of self-defence. My downfall is that I have long priors, mainly around driving and have been in the jail system because of it.
Can someone help me with some vital information on Criminal Law, please please?
Also leaning towards consequential circumstances. As I am providing a roof over my small family, which I did not fall between when getting sentenced.
I have already appealed the sentence
Long story short, I breached it by assault that I felt threatened in. But I threw the first punch and went a little overboard. This was after a verbal argument with my partner. The male approached me from a pub with alcohol on he's breath and got in my face.
I have the option of appealing the conviction but my solicitor is saying that he thinks we won't beat the charge of assault. As I think it was in the lines of self-defence. My downfall is that I have long priors, mainly around driving and have been in the jail system because of it.
Can someone help me with some vital information on Criminal Law, please please?
Also leaning towards consequential circumstances. As I am providing a roof over my small family, which I did not fall between when getting sentenced.
I have already appealed the sentence