31 Jul 2008
HKSAR v. HUI CHI MING
- Citation
- HKSAR v. HUI CHI MING
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMA270/2008
The appropriate pre-enhancement starting point for this defendant was 18 months given the facts (2,257 DVDs of lower-end obscenity and defendant as person-in-charge); the defendant's persistent and similar prior convictions warranted an enhancement of one third to a 24-month starting point, and after applying a one-third discount for an early guilty plea the proper sentence is 16 months; the magistrate's failure to articulate the pre-enhancement starting point justified appellate intervention and reduction of the sentence from 20 to 16 months.