2015-11-16
Assault victim tells judge she doesn't want to see woman who broke her eye socket jailed
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; However, in her victim impact report she told Judge Hogan she was "not a vindictive person" and that she did not wish to see Goode jailed as long as she was remorseful. Judge Hogan praised the victim for her "very reasonable and charitable view." He said that she "displayed not a little patience to the defendant whose conduct was, to use a word from another age, unbecoming of a lady." Goode wept as Judge Hogan imposed a four year sentence which he then suspended for four years on strict conditions. "I'm going to keep this hanging over her head because she has a bit to go yet before she becomes a useful member of society," he said.