R v ROGERSON [2005] NSWDC 22

New South Wales District Court

CITATION: R v ROGERSON [2005] NSWDC 22

1 December 2004 HEARING DATE(S): 31 January 2005 1 February 2005 18 February 2005

JUDGMENT DATE: 18 February 2005

JURISDICTION: Criminal

JUDGMENT OF: Berman SC DCJ

DECISION: The offender is sentenced to imprisonment for two and a half years. I set a non-parole period of one year at which time I order that the offender be released to parole.

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW - Sentence - Form 1 - Give false evidence to the Police Integrity Commission

LEGISLATION CITED: Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Crimes Act 1914 (Cth)

R v Aristodemou (unreported, NSWCCA, 30 June 1994) R v Bulliman (unreported, NSWCCA, 25 February 1993) CASES CITED: R v Chad (unreported, NSWCCA, 13 May 1997) R v Chapman (unreported, NSWCCA, 21 May 1998) R v Tregllia [2002] NSWCCA 338 R v Salesi Fifita (unreported, NSWCCA, 26 November 1992)

PARTIES: The Crown Roger Caleb Rogerson

FILE NUMBER(S): DC 03/11/0970

COUNSEL: P Miller - Crown Mr C Steirn SC - Offender

SOLICITORS: Director of Public Prosecutions Paul Kenny & Associates

JUDGMENT

1 HIS HONOUR: Few in the community would not have heard of Roger Rogerson. A witness called on the offender's behalf in these proceedings said that the offender once joked that the media had changed his name by deed poll to "disgraced former detective Roger Caleb Rogerson". Most members of the community would probably have an opinion as to the character of the offender and if that were based on media reports and what were claimed to be dramatisations of Mr Rogerson's life shown on television. I would expect that those views would be overwhelmingly negative.