The Court sentenced the respondent to a total effective sentence of 22 weeks' imprisonment for 14 charges of contempt arising from abusive and threatening emails sent to County Court and Supreme Court addresses and a contemptuous insult directed at a County Court judge in open court. The Court accepted that a provisional diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder reduced subjective culpability and moderated the weight of general and specific deterrence under Verdins principles, but held that the sustained, premeditated and escalating nature of the campaign — committed after multiple warnings, a court order, and an undertaking given as a condition of release from custody — together with relevant prior convictions for analogous conduct, meant that imprisonment was the only appropriate disposition. The respondent's late and qualified apologies were given limited mitigating weight because they were accompanied by continued allegations of corruption and did not reflect genuine remorse directed at the affected judicial officers.
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