NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : REGINA v. MERRITT [2002] NSWSC 1159 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Criminal FILE NUMBER(S) : SC No. 70010 of 2002 HEARING DATE(S) : 31 May 2002; 26 July 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 4 December 2002
PARTIES : REGINA v. MERRITT, Craig Andrew JUDGMENT OF : Greg James J at 1
COUNSEL : Crown: P. Dare Off: P. Zahra, SC. SOLICITORS : Crown: S.E. O'Connor Off: D.J. Humphreys CATCHWORDS : Murder - three counts - offender's infant children - worst class of case - heinousness - extreme level of culpability - life sentence - two stage process - absence of effective subjective matters LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Crimes Act 1900 Previtera (1997) 94 A. Crim. R. 76 Veen (No. 1) (1978-79) 143 CLR 458 Veen (No. 2) (1986) 161 CLR 158 Petrinovic [1999] NSWSC 1131 Harris (2000) 50 NSWLR 409 Rose (CCA, unreported 11 October 1999) Miles [2002] NSWCCA 276 CASES CITED : Pearce (1998) 194 CLR 610 Ibbs (1987) 163 CLR 447 Twala (CCA, unreported 1 November 1994) Veleski (Dunford, unreported 26 September 1997) Park (Sperling, J., unreported 3 August 2000) Cikos (Dunford, J., unreported 9 February 2002) Cheatham (Grove, J., unreported 16 July 2001) Garforth (CCA, unreported 23 May 1994) DECISION : On each of the three counts in the indictment, I sentence the offender to life imprisonment to date from 2 September 2001.
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