link.Sheriff Douglas Brown told Irwin: “Emergency service workers require the protection of the courts so assaults on them are to be treated with appropriate severity.“Assaults by spitting or attempting to spit during the current pandemic are particularly serious because they are likely to cause significant alarm and distress.”The 15-month sentence was reduced from 22 months because of Irwin’s early guilty pleas and backdated to November 2..
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