25 Feb 1997
R. v. SHANAHAN KG
- Citation
- R. v. SHANAHAN KG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA94/1997
Although the magistrate's immediate custodial sentence was supportable on the material before him, the appellate court allowed the appeal because the newly produced character references and the severe personal and vocational consequences of imprisonment for the appellant demonstrated exceptional circumstances in a first offender with an early guilty plea, justifying substitution of a fine for imprisonment.