R v Goodacre [2024] NSWDC 432

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Goodacre [2024] NSWDC 432 Hearing dates: 17 July 2024 Date of orders: 17 July 2024 Decision date: 17 July 2024 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Haesler SC DCJ Decision: Aggregate sentence of imprisonment of 7 years 3 months with a non-parole period of 4 years Catchwords: CRIME — Violent offences — Assault occasioning actual bodily harm — Offensive weapon with intent to commit indictable offence CRIME — Property offences — Break and enter with intent to commit serious indictable offence — Circumstances of aggravation CRIME — Property offences — Destroying or damaging property — Larceny CRIME — Summary offences — Custody of knife in public place SENTENCING — Aggravating factors — Breach of conditional liberty — Record of previous convictions SENTENCING — Guidelines for sentencing — Role of guidelines SENTENCING — Mitigating factors — Plea of guilty SENTENCING — Penalties — Imprisonment SENTENCING — Relevant factors on sentence — Deterrence — Form 1 offences — Moral culpability — Objective seriousness — Middle range for Sequence 6 — Consideration of community protection — Purposes of sentencing SENTENCING — Sentencing procedure — Instinctive synthesis SENTENCING — Subjective considerations on sentence — Drug addiction — Intoxication — Stimulant and Opioid Use Disorders — Learning deficiencies — Childhood sexual abuse Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) Cases Cited: BH v R [200023] NSWCCA 278 Cahyadi v R [2007] NSWCCA 1 Dungay v R [2020] NSWCCA 209 Eaton v R [200023] NSWCCA 125 FL v R [2020] NSWCCA 114 Markarian v The Queen [2005] HCA 25; (2005) 228 CLR 357 Muldrock v The Queen [2011] HCA 39; (2011) 244 CLR 120 Owen v R [2022] NSWCCA 214 Postiglione v The Queen [1997] HCA 26 (1997) 189 CLR 295 R v Henry [1999] NSWCCA 111; (1999) 46 NSWLR 346; (1999) 106 A Crim R 149 Texts Cited: Australian Federal Government, Royal Commission, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Final Report (December 2017) Category: Sentence Parties: Adam Goodacre (the offender) Public Prosecutions (NSW) (Crown) Representation: Counsel: A Booker (for the offender)