Lower Court Judgment
14/05/2010 Supreme Court of New South Wales (Court of Criminal Appeal)(McClellan CJ, Howie J and Harrison J)
Catchwords
Criminal law — Sentence — Applicant pleaded guilty to charge of sexual intercourse with child under age of 10 years — Further offence of aggravated indecent assault taken into account in sentencing — Applicant intellectually disabled — Applicant previously convicted of similar offence — Relevance of standard non-parole period in cases of less than mid-range seriousness — Whether applicant "significantly intellectually disabled" such that deterrence objective inappropriate — Whether full-time custody an exceptional penalty for intellectually disabled offenders — Relevance of rehabilitation and community protection to sentencing of intellectually disabled offenders — Whether applicant a person with "special circumstances" — Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), ss 61M(1), 66A — Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), ss 3A, 54A, 54B.
Words and phrases — "significantly intellectually disabled", "special circumstances".
11/03/2011 Hearing (SLA, Sydney)
25/03/2011 Notice of appeal
08/04/2011 Written submissions (Appellant)
08/04/2011 Chronology (Appellant)
03/05/2011 Written Submissions (Respondent)
16/05/2011 Reply
08/06/2011 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra)
09/06/2011 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra)
05/10/2011 Judgment (Judgment summary)
