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Case [2025] VCC 523

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AGLC: Director of Public Prosecutions v Harris [2025] VCC 523
Case: [2025] VCC 523
Decision Date: 29 April 2025

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Wilson v The King [2023] VSCA 276
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…5] (Priest and Kyrou JJA); Russo v The Queen [2021] VSCA 244 [53]–[56] (Emerton JA, Priest JA agreeing). [36] Wilson v The King [2023] VSCA 276; Stafford v The King [2022] VSCA 229. [37] Ex D1.2. 104While current sentencing practice is relevant to the sentences I impose on you, it is only one of a number of senten…
Stafford v The King [2022] VSCA 229
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…e Queen [2021] VSCA 244 [53]–[56] (Emerton JA, Priest JA agreeing). [36] Wilson v The King [2023] VSCA 276; Stafford v The King [2022] VSCA 229. [37] Ex D1.2. 104While current sentencing practice is relevant to the sentences I impose on you, it is only one of a number of sentencing considerations I must take into…
DPP v Conos [2021] VSCA 367
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…erson v The Queen [2021] VSCA 53 [31] (Priest and T Forrest JJA); DPP v Conos [2021] VSCA 367 [87] (Maxwell P, Kaye and Sifris JJA). 34I consider your moral culpability to be quite high. Had it not been for your mental health diagnoses, discussed below, I would have assessed this factor as being much higher. Nonet…
Russo v The Queen [2021] VSCA 244
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…and McLeish JJA). See also Williams (a pseudonym) v The Queen [2021] VSCA 35 [21]–[25] (Priest and Kyrou JJA); Russo v The Queen [2021] VSCA 244 [53]–[56] (Emerton JA, Priest JA agreeing). [36] Wilson v The King [2023] VSCA 276; Stafford v The King [2022] VSCA 229. [37] Ex D1.2. 104While current sentencing practi…
McPherson v The Queen [2021] VSCA 53
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…example of this type of offending. [17] See generally, McPherson v The Queen [2021] VSCA 53 [31] (Priest and T Forrest JJA); DPP v Conos [2021] VSCA 367 [87] (Maxwell P, Kaye and Sifris JJA). 34I consider your moral culpability to be quite high. Had it not been for your mental health diagnoses, discussed below,…
Williams (a pseudonym) v The Queen [2021] VSCA 35
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…JJA). [35] (2016) 53 VR 546, 606–609 [173]–[183] (Redlich, Santamaria and McLeish JJA). See also Williams (a pseudonym) v The Queen [2021] VSCA 35 [21]–[25] (Priest and Kyrou JJA); Russo v The Queen [2021] VSCA 244 [53]–[56] (Emerton JA, Priest JA agreeing). [36] Wilson v The King [2023] VSCA 276; Stafford v The…
Brown v the Queen [2019] VSCA 286
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…’) s 5A(1); CA s 38(3). [7] SA s 5(2)(ab) [8] SA s 5A(1)(b). [9] SA s 5B(2)(a). [10] Brown v The Queen (2019) 59 VR 462, 464 [4], (Maxwell P, Priest, Kaye, T Forrest and Emerton JJA) (‘ Brown ’). [11] SA s 5B(3)(b). [12] Brown 464 [4], 479 [55]–[57] (applying Muldrock v The Queen (2011) 244 CLR 120, 132 [27] ((Fre…
Brown v The Queen [2019] NSWCCA 269
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…ing Act 1991 (‘ SA ’) s 5A(1); CA s 38(3). [7] SA s 5(2)(ab) [8] SA s 5A(1)(b). [9] SA s 5B(2)(a). [10] Brown v The Queen (2019) 59 VR 462, 464 [4], (Maxwell P, Priest, Kaye, T Forrest and Emerton JJA) (‘ Brown ’). [11] SA s 5B(3)(b). [12] Brown 464 [4], 479 [55]–[57] (applying Muldrock v The Queen (2011) 244 CLR 120, 132…
Thomas v The Queen [2019] VSCA 223
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…Redlich JA) (citations omitted). See also Tones v The Queen [2017] VSCA 118 [36] (Maxwell P, Redlich and Kyrou JJA) and Thomas v The Queen [2019] VSCA 223 [66] (Ashley and Weinberg JJA). 99Your counsel submitted rehabilitative and punitive aspects of delay are relevant in your case, but the rehabilitation aspect…
Director of Public Prosecutions v Dalgliesh (a pseudonym) [2017] HCA 41
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…rred to by the prosecutor[36] and your counsel.[37] [32] (2016) 259 CLR 256, 266–268 [21]–[25] (Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle and Gordon JJ). [33] (2017) 262 CLR 428, 444–447 [47]–[58] (Kiefel CJ, Bell and Keane JJ), 452–455 [78]–[85] (Gageler and Gordon JJ). [34] (2015) 250 A Crim R 282, 292 [30]–[31] (Redlich, Pries…
Tones v The Queen [2017] VSCA 118
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…ent in itself.[31] [30] (2013) 40 VR 436. [31] Ibid 445–446 [36] (Warren CJ and Redlich JA) (citations omitted). See also Tones v The Queen [2017] VSCA 118 [36] (Maxwell P, Redlich and Kyrou JJA) and Thomas v The Queen [2019] VSCA 223 [66] (Ashley and Weinberg JJA). 99Your counsel submitted rehabilitative and puni…
Jurj v The Queen [2016] VSCA 57
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…Legislation Cited: Sentencing Act 1991 – Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 Cases Cited: Jurj and Miftode v The Queen [2016] VSCA 57 – R v Verdins (2007) 16 VR 269 – Rodriguez v DPP (Cth) (2013) 40 VR 436 Sentence: 6 years and 6 months’ imprisonment – 4 years non-parole period…
The Queen v Putra Hendra [2014] ACTSC 102
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…(‘ Brown ’). [11] SA s 5B(3)(b). [12] Brown 464 [4], 479 [55]–[57] (applying Muldrock v The Queen (2011) 244 CLR 120, 132 [27] ((French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Heydon, Crennan, Kiefel and Bell JJ). 30During the plea hearing, the prosecutor appropriately conceded that many of the aggravating features as identified in Jurj…
Arthars v The Queen [2013] VSCA 258
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…4. There has been significant further delay since then which is not attributable to you or your legal practitioners. [29] See Arthars v The Queen (2013) 39 VR 613, 622–623 [32] (Redlich and Coghlan JJA and T Forrest AJA). 98As the Victorian Court of Appeal observed in Rodriguez v DPP (Cth) :[30] Delay is normally r…
Rodriguez v DPP (Cth) [2013] VSCA 216
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…004 Cases Cited: Jurj and Miftode v The Queen [2016] VSCA 57 – R v Verdins (2007) 16 VR 269 – Rodriguez v DPP (Cth) (2013) 40 VR 436 Sentence: 6 years and 6 months’ imprisonment – 4 years non-parole period…
Muldrock v The Queen [2011] HCA 39
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…est and Emerton JJA) (‘ Brown ’). [11] SA s 5B(3)(b). [12] Brown 464 [4], 479 [55]–[57] (applying Muldrock v The Queen (2011) 244 CLR 120, 132 [27] ((French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Heydon, Crennan, Kiefel and Bell JJ). 30During the plea hearing, the prosecutor appropriately conceded that many of the aggravating features as identif…
Hasan v The Queen [2010] VSCA 352
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…you caused injury to Ms Hudson’s fourchette and cervix. [15] Jurj [80]. [16] See Hasan v The Queen (2010) 31 VR 28, 37 [38] (Maxwell P, Redlich and Harper JJA). 32The prosecutor accepted this is a single date offence and was of limited duration, where significant concurrency is warranted. Your counsel characterised your o…
R v Verdins [2007] VSCA 102
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…Act 1991 – Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004 Cases Cited: Jurj and Miftode v The Queen [2016] VSCA 57 – R v Verdins (2007) 16 VR 269 – Rodriguez v DPP (Cth) (2013) 40 VR 436 Sentence: 6 years and 6 months’ imprisonment – 4 years non-parole period…
R v Hasan [2005] NSWCCA 21
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…to Ms Hudson’s fourchette and cervix. [15] Jurj [80]. [16] See Hasan v The Queen (2010) 31 VR 28, 37 [38] (Maxwell P, Redlich and Harper JJA). 32The prosecutor accepted this is a single date offence and was of limited duration, where significant concurrency is warranted. Your counsel characterised your offending…
The Queen v Kilic [2016] HCATrans 240
Citation 20

…g [34] and DPP (Cth) v Thomas .[35] I have also had regard to the comparable cases I was referred to by the prosecutor[36] and your counsel.[37] [32] (2016) 259 CLR 256, 266–268 [21]–[25] (Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle and Gordon JJ). [33] (2017) 262 CLR 428, 444–447 [47]–[58] (Kiefel CJ, Bell and Keane JJ), 452–455 […
DPP (Cth) v Thomas [2005] VSC 85
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…Keane JJ), 452–455 [78]–[85] (Gageler and Gordon JJ). [34] (2015) 250 A Crim R 282, 292 [30]–[31] (Redlich, Priest and Beach JJA). [35] (2016) 53 VR 546, 606–609 [173]–[183] (Redlich, Santamaria and McLeish JJA). See also Williams (a pseudonym) v The Queen [2021] VSCA 35 [21]–[25] (Priest and Kyrou JJA); Russo v Th…

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