REGINA v. BATTUR [2003] NSWSC 1164

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : REGINA v. BATTUR [2003] NSWSC 1164 revised - 15/12/2003 HEARING DATE(S) : Thursday 14 August 2003; Friday 7 November 2003; Thursday 13 November 2003; Monday 8 December 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 8 December 2003 JURISDICTION: Criminal JUDGMENT OF : Greg James J at 1 DECISION : The offender is sentenced to a period of imprisonment for six years to date from 8 December 2003, to expire on 7 December 2009 with a non-parole period of two years and nine months, taking into account the pre-sentence custody already served of three months. The non-parole period will expire on 7 September 2006. The earliest possible date on which the offender is eligible for release on parole is 7 September 2006. I recommend that the offender not be deported.

CATCHWORDS : Criminal law - manslaughter - sentence - basis of plea - provocation - excessive self-defence - intoxication - inability to find intent to seriously injure - unlawful and dangerous act - alien on whom sentence more onerous - prospect of reprisals on deportation - recommendation against deportation. LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Hill (1981) 3 A. Crim. R. 397 MacDonald (CCA, unreported 12 December 1995) Previtera (1997) 94 A. Crim. R. 76 Oinonen [1999] NSWCCA 310 CASES CITED : Thomson & Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 Alexander (1994) 78 A. Crim. R. 141 Taouk (CCA, unreported 20 March 1992) Cameron [2002] 76 ALJR 382 Daetz [2003] NSWCCA 216 PARTIES : REGINA v. BATTUR, Munkh-Erdene FILE NUMBER(S) : SC No. 70004 of 2003 COUNSEL : Crown: J. Bennett, SC. Offender: P. Zahra, SC. SOLICITORS : Crown: S.E. O'Connor Offender: Legal Aid Commission