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Mosepele v S (A101//2018) [2019] ZAGPPHC 328 (18 July 2019)
The High Court upheld an appeal against sentence, reducing a 12-year term to 5 years after finding the magistrate failed to properly weigh drug dependency and rehabilitation.
Trichart v S (A441/2013) [2014] ZAGPJHC 91; 2014 (2) SACR 245 (GJ) (2 April 2014)
The High Court set aside a habitual-criminal sentence, finding the magistrate misdirected himself by rejecting a probation report and ignoring drug dependency.
Johnson v S (A627/2011) [2012] ZAWCHC 286 (10 August 2012)
The High Court dismissed an appeal against sentence, finding no material misdirection by the magistrate and no basis to interfere with the term imposed.
Heunis v S (CA & R 358/2011) [2012] ZAECGHC 54 (25 June 2012)
The High Court allowed a sentence appeal in a shoplifting matter and replaced a three-year prison term with a wholly suspended sentence.
S v Schlebusch (116/92) [1993] ZASCA 131 (23 September 1993)
Appeal against sentence allowed: a prison term for attempted car theft was replaced with rehabilitation and a wholly suspended sentence, given drug dependency.
S v Reay (161/86) [1986] ZASCA 135 (27 November 1986)
A drug-dependent first offender’s prison sentences for pharmacy burglaries were replaced with suspended sentences and compulsory rehabilitation.
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