Sunia James Kafovalu v Regina [2007] NSWCCA 141

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION: Sunia James Kafovalu v Regina [2007] NSWCCA 141

HEARING DATE(S): 26 April 2007

JUDGMENT DATE: 24 May 2007

JUDGMENT OF: James J at 1; Rothman J at 2; Harrison J at 3

DECISION: Leave to appeal against sentence granted. Appeal against sentence dismissed.

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW – appeal against severity of sentence, robbery in company, affray, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, assaulting police officer in execution of duty thereby occasioning actual bodily harm, resiting police officers in execution of duty, objective seriousness of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, whether error to take into account fact that offender on parole at time of offence, no error shown, no miscarriage of sentencing discretion, sentences not manifestly excessive

LEGISLATION CITED: Crimes Act 1900 - ss 58, 59(1), 60(2), 93C(1), 97(1) Criminal Appeal Act 1912 - s6(3)

Pearce v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 610 R v Henry (1999) 46 NSWLR 346 R v Keen [2004] NSWCCA 86 R v McNaughton [2006] NSWCCA 242 R v Moffitt (1990) 20 NSWLR 114 R v Price [2004] NSWCCA 186 R v Readman (1990) 47 A Crim R 181 CASES CITED: R v Richards [1981] 2 NSWLR 464 R v Simpson (2001) 53 NSWLR 704 R v Thomson and Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 R v Tran [1999] NSWCCA 109 R v Way (2004) 60 NSWLR 168 R v Wilson [2005] NSWCCA 219 Re Attorney-General's Application under s 37 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) (No 2 of 2002) (2002) 137 A Crim R 196 Veen v The Queen (No 2) (1988) 164 CLR 465