SA: Legal group may try to stop appeal in Nemer case
South Australia's Bar Association might try to stop a Crown appeal against a suspendedjail sentence for a man who shot a delivery driver in the eye.
Association secretary IAN ROBERTSON says the executive has resolved to consider interveningin the case of 21-year-old PAUL HABIB NEMER.
He was given a three-year suspended jail term and placed on a bond earlier this year.
NEMER pleaded guilty to endangering life after a plea bargaining arrangement with the Crown.
The Director of Public Prosecutions suggested an appeal would fail, and the state governmentinvestigated the grounds for such action.
The appeal was lodged earlier this month.
Mr ROBERTSON says if the Bar Association decides to try to intervene, it doesn't intendto comment on the merits of the NEMER sentence but rather on the process which resultedin the appeal.
He's told ABC radio the DPP appears to have been forced by the government to bring the appeal.
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KEYWORD: NEMER (ADELAIDE)
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