DPP v Bowen
Court of Appeal
Maxwell P, Priest, McLeish, T Forrest and Walker JJA
17/12/2021
[2021] VSCA 355
Criminal law — Sentencing — Totality — Offences committed while on parole — Parole cancelled and respondent required to serve remainder of original sentence for prior offending — Whether totality principle required consideration of entire period of original sentence
Criminal law — Sentencing — Crown appeal against sentence — Trafficking in commercial quantity of drug of dependence — Category 2 offence — Whether open to impose combination sentence of imprisonment and community correction order — Whether sentence manifestly inadequate — Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic), s 5(2H)(e)
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