Player Watch #3: Dion Prestia - Charged By Police (Innocent Until Proven Guilty)

[THE_GUN]

Again, your making excuses.

You can't be charged for receiving stolen money unless they consider it reasonable that you could have known it was stolen,

These blokes he was lending money to ( he can say they stole his card, but logically, sounds a lot like he knew), they were tip-rats. Known for stealing. I might be wrong, but he had commited crimes of theft with these blokes in his past.
But even if we believe his rather unbelievable story, When they stole his card to rent a car in their own town even though they already own cars, or ones to loan off friends - did that not seem weird? Did he not ask them "why", especially knowing the character of the people involved? When they paid him back with money he knew they more than likely didn't "earn", did he not know?

He pleaded guilty. He is guilty. No "*". Bloke was 31 years old FFS. Been to prison. Made a family, lived such a life that i owned a book from him, which i purchased, while all this was going on.

The fact he already had a criminal record isn't another "*" either. He is in that position because he deserves to be. He committed crimes, got caught, got charged.

Despite all this, Marlion got given a chance to redeem himself & got given, the absolute best, 1st game opportunity of any player in AFL history. He got to debut in a Grand Final for Richmond. Richo, Knights, the Kellaways & so many other Richmond people would have given everything to play in a Richmond GF. This guy got gifted it without ever even needing to play a single game for us.

He knew better. Stop making excuses for him. He is guilty. Pleaded guilty & the story his lawyers made up was not believable. If it was, they wouldn't have told him to plead guilty. Again, when i was 14 years old i have enough maturity to understand that when i accepted the $5 for a sausage roll, knowing the money was stolen - It was something i deserved to feel ashamed of.

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[RJK Tiger]

"Wasting bandwidth refers to unnecessary consumption of internet data, which can lead to slower speeds and higher costs"

Like farts in an hour-glass, so are the days of our lives, wasted reading & responding to your mental diarrhoea.

FWIW mate, i don;'t even read your junk unless you responding to me. Give it a go maybe, might make life better for everyone

 

[THE_GUN]

Like farts in an hour-glass, so are the days of our lives, wasted reading & responding to your mental diarrhoea.

FWIW mate, i don;'t even read your junk unless you responding to me. Give it a go maybe, might make life better for everyone

More sh!t from a legendary a55

 

[LTT]

As they say.... "cool story".

No one pleads guilty to charges for lending someone a credit card & reeceiving stolen good/money without knowledge.

Remember, the guilty make up stories to appear innocent too. And the completely innocent rarely plead guilty of any charge

If lending the credit card story is true, then it comes down to a few things, (1) was he lied too (for example told him he needed a van to pick up a couch), (2) was it reasonable to stay silent after he found out the truth. It's easy to say he should have reported his mates or at least been smart enough to cooperate with the police, but I think a lot of people would have done the same as he appears to have done which is stay silent. I don't condone this type of behaviour, and I probably would have been so pissed off I don't think I would have shown the same loyalty or at least shown more loyalty to my family. Hard to judge unless had I lived that situation