Khajehtaheri v R [2025] NSWCCA 6

Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Khajehtaheri v R [2025] NSWCCA 6 Hearing dates: 5 February 2025 Date of orders: 14 February 2025 Decision date: 14 February 2025 Before: Payne JA at [1]; Fagan J at [68]; Coleman J at [69] Decision: (1) Leave to appeal against sentence granted. (2) Appeal dismissed. Catchwords: CRIME — Appeals — Appeal against sentence — Manifest excess — whether failure to apply correct principle with respect to the quantification of a discount for the applicant's pleas of guilty — s 16A(2)(f) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) — contrition involving facilitation of the course of justice — no lesser sentence warranted Legislation Cited: Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) Part IB, ss 16A, 19AB Criminal Appeal Act 1912 (NSW) s 6(3) Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) s 307 Cases Cited: Adams v The Queen (2008) 234 CLR 143; [2008] HCA 15 Baden v R [2020] NSWCCA 23 Bae v R [2020] NSWCCA 35 Cheng v The Queen (2000) 203 CLR 248; [2000] HCA 53 DL v The Queen (2018) 265 CLR 215; [2018] HCA 32 El-Ghourani v R [2009] NSWCCA 140 Giles-Adams v R; Preca v R [2023] NSWCCA 122 Kentwell v The Queen (2014) 252 CLR 601; [2014] HCA 37 Obeid v R (2017) 96 NSWLR 155; [2017] NSWCCA 221 Okafor v R [2007] NSWCCA 147 Onuorah v R (2009) 76 NSWLR 1; [2009] NSWCCA 238 R v Barrientos [1999] NSWCCA 1 R v Chen [2002] NSWCCA 174 R v De Leeuw [2015] NSWCCA 183 R v Ferrer-Esis (1991) 55 A Crim R 231 R v Glynatsis [2013] NSWCCA 131 R v Kaldor [2004] NSWCCA 425 R v Knight [2004] NSWCCA 145 R v Lee [2007] NSWCCA 234 R v Nguyen [2005] NSWCCA 362 R v Nguyen; R v Pham [2010] NSWCCA 238 R v Paliwala [2005] NSWCCA 221 R v Pang [1999] NSWCCA 4 R v Richard [2011] NSWSC 866 R v Stanbouli [2003] NSWCCA 355 Singh v R [2018] NSWCCA 60 Sukkar v The Queen (No 2) [2008] WASCA 2 The Queen v Olbrich (1999) 199 CLR 270; [1999] HCA 54 Totaan v R (2022) 108 NSWLR 17; [2022] NSWCCA 75 Tyler v R; R v Chalmers [2007] NSWCCA 247 Wong v The Queen (2001) 207 CLR 584; [2001] HCA 64 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Shervin Khajehtaheri (applicant) Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (respondent) Representation: Counsel: T Woods and J Abednego (applicant) A Chhabra with J Fennel (respondent)