Don’t call me ‘mate’: Magistrate reprimands drug driver before sentence
A man who appeared in Orange Local Court on Monday for driving with methamphetamine in his system was reprimanded by magistrate David Day for repeatedly calling him ‘mate’.
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“You’ve been in court often enough in your life as an adult to know you don’t refer to a magistrate as mate,” Mr Day said.
He fined John James Doyle, 48, of Garema Road, $220 and disqualified him from driving for three months for the April 24 drug-driving offence.
Doyle was stopped by police in Summer Street at 9.45am.
