R v Hyland [2020] NSWDC 933
In light of the offender’s prior good character, age, health, extra-curial punishment due to onerous bail conditions, valuable community service since arrest, and genuine remorse, a full-time custodial sentence is not required for cultivation in excess of commercial quantity, and the sentence should be served by way of intensive correction in the community.
- Parties
- Crown: R; Offender: Susan Gai Hyland
- Jurisdiction
- Australia
- Judgment Date
- 18 December 2020
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal / Sentence
- Outcome
- Convicted; Sentence of imprisonment for one year and six months, to be served by way of intensive correction in the community.
- Legal Topics
- Cultivation of Prohibited Plants, Sentencing, Intensive Correction Order
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Parties
R
Crown
Susan Gai Hyland
Offender
Procedural Posture
Criminal / Sentence
Legal Issues
- 1 Appropriate sentence for permitting cultivation of cannabis exceeding commercial quantity
- 2 Whether special circumstances justify non-custodial sentence
Ratio Decidendi
In light of the offender’s prior good character, age, health, extra-curial punishment due to onerous bail conditions, valuable community service since arrest, and genuine remorse, a full-time custodial sentence is not required for cultivation in excess of commercial quantity, and the sentence should be served by way of intensive correction in the community.
Court Disposition
Convicted; Sentence of imprisonment for one year and six months, to be served by way of intensive correction in the community.
Orders
- You must not commit any offence.
- You must submit to supervision by a community corrections officer.
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