''You were behaving like a jerk and you were smashed for it''

Magistrate David Hellpern
IN an article headed ''30 beers and still driving'', published in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday, Magistrate David Hellpern was quoted as saying to the defendant Rowan Davidson: ''You were behaving like a jerk and you were smashed for it.''
In fact, those words were contained in a submission to the court and the magistrate was simply reading them. The error is regretted.