Woodgate v R [2009] NSWCCA 137

Reported Decision: 195 A Crim R 219

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION: Woodgate v R [2009] NSWCCA 137

HEARING DATE(S): 27 April 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 7 May 2009

JUDGMENT OF: Grove J at 1; Buddin J at 54; RA Hulme J at 55

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

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE - Sentence - Supply large commercial quantity MDMA - Rejection by judge of submissions and opinion of psychologist - No error demonstrated - Maximum penalty of life imprisonment - Fourteen years (ten years non-parole) - Standard non-parole period fifteen years - Sentence not manifestly excessive - Parity - Co-offender charged with offence involving vastly lesser quantity - R v Kerr [2003] NSWCCA 234 doubted - Intervention by appellate court not attracted - Special circumstances - No miscarriage of discretion in assessing proportion between non-parole period and total sentence

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

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