DPP -v- Schaeffer [2010] NSWLC 29

Local Court of New South Wales

CITATION: DPP -v- Schaeffer [2010] NSWLC 29

JURISDICTION: Criminal

PARTIES: Director of Public Prosecutions Ian Schaeffer

FILE NUMBER: 2009/137594

PLACE OF HEARING: Albury Local Court

DATE OF DECISION: 11/22/2010

MAGISTRATE: Magistrate Lerve

CATCHWORDS: Sentence – multiple offending – affray – general deterrence – breach of conditional liberty

LEGISLATION CITED: Crimes Act 1900, s 93CCrimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999, ss 3A, 5, 12, 21A, 44

CASES CITED: Attorney General's Reference Pursuant to s. 37 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act No. 2 of 2002 [2002] NSWCCA 515Bourke v R [2010] NSWCCA 22DPP v Cooke [2007] NSWCA 2Pearce v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 610R v AD [2008] NSWCCA 289R v Cahyadi [2007] NSWCCA 1R v Corbett [2008] NSWCCA 42R v Doan (2000) 50 NSWLR 115R v Elphick [2010] NSWCCA 112R v Fajka [2004] NSWCCA 166R v Hersi [2010] NSWCCA 57R v Jones (unrep., NSWCCA, 30.6.1994)R v Mitchell, R v Gallagher [2007] NSWCCA 296R v Nicholson [2010] NSWCCA 80R v Wallace [2007] NSWCCA 63

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REPRESENTATION: Ms. R. Gee for the Director of Public Prosecutions Mr. A. Blackman of Counsel for and with Mr Schaeffer

ORDERS:

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JUDGMENT 1 On 30 August 2010 following plea negotiations the offender pleaded guilty to the following charges: That (he) on 24 December 2009 at Albury in the State of New South Wales did use unlawful violence towards Larry Haifa by conduct such that a person of reasonable firmness if present at the scene would have feared for their safety, contrary to section 93C(1) of the Crimes Act 1900, and further that; (he) on 24 December 2009 at Albury in the State of New South Wales did assault Larry Haifa, contrary to s. 61 of the Crimes Act, 1900.