NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : REGINA v. COULTER [2005] NSWSC 101
HEARING DATE(S) : Friday 4 February 2005
JUDGMENT DATE : 24 February 2005
JURISDICTION : Common Law
JUDGMENT OF : Greg James J at 1
DECISION : I sentence the offender to life imprisonment to date from 15 March 2004.
CATCHWORDS : Murder - sentence - applicability of sentencing criteria - test for imposition of life sentence, "worst class of case" - relevance of offender's obsessive compulsive disorder pre-disposing him to commission of this and similar crimes - consideration of dangerousness.
LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999
Previtera (1997) 94 A. Crim. R. 76 Merritt [2004] NSWCCA 19 Penisini [2003] NSWSC 892 Olbrich (1999) 199 CLR 270 Harris (2000) 50 NSWLR 409 Aslett [2004] NSWSC 1228 CASES CITED : Twala (CCA, unreported 4 November 1994) Veen (No. 2) (1987) 164 CLR 465 Rose (1999) NSWCCA 327 Kalache (2000) 111 A. Crim. R. 152 El-Andouri [2004] NSWCCA 178 Thomson & Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 Garforth (CCA, unreported 23 May 1994)
PARTIES : REGINA v. DAVID LIONEL JOHN COULTER
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2004/2899
Crown: W. Dawe, QC. COUNSEL : Offender: J. Stratton, SC.
Crown: S. Kavanagh SOLICITORS : Offender: S.E. O'Connor
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION :
- 23 - IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION CRIMINAL LIST
GREG JAMES, J.
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