NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : R v Russell [2006] NSWSC 722
HEARING DATE(S) : 10 and 11 July 2006
JUDGMENT DATE : 21 July 2006
JUDGMENT OF : Newman AJ
DECISION : The prisoner is sentenced to a non-parole period of three years commencing 18 March 2005 and expiring on 17 March 2008 when the prisoner may be released on parole. I fix a parole period of three years commencing on 18 March 2008 and expiring on 17 March 2011.
CATCHWORDS : Sentencing - manslaughter - provocation - offender pleading guilty to manslaughter - domestic violence - relationship between offender and de facto characterised by violence and abuse - offender stabbed de facto following a confrontation
LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900 Crime (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999
Bollen v Regina (1998) 99 A Crim R 510 R v Bogunovich (1985) 16 A Crim R 456 R v Judith Ann Spencer, Mathews J, unreported, 18 December 1992 R v Kennedy [2000] NSWSC 109 R v King [1998] NSWSC 289 R v McIntyre, McInerney J, unreported, 15 March 1996 R v Melrose [2001] NSWSC 847 CASES CITED : R v Previtera (1997) 94 A Crim R 76 R v Roberts, Hunt J, unreported, 31 August 1989 R v Stokes & Difford (1990) 51 A Crim R 25 R v Woolsey, Newman J, unreported, 19 August 1993 Runjanjic and Kontinnen (1991) A Crim R 362 The Queen v Simon, Bruce J, unreported, 21 July 1995 The Queen v Varagnolo, McInerney J, unreported, 21 March 1996 The Queen v Yeoman [2003] NSWSC 194
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