Schanker v The Queen [2018] VSCA 95
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Schanker v The Queen [2018] VSCA 95
ChapterLarge scale drug offences – background moderates sentence with limits; no specific evidentiary nexus between deprivation and offending
Coram: Tate JA, McLeish JA and Kidd AJA
- Very aware of applicant’s sad shocking background. It does moderate sentence but there are limits to its ameliorating influence. There was no specific evidentiary nexus established between this deprivation and the offending in question: at [229].
- Refugee; early life in Sierra Leone marked by extreme violence and trauma; refugee camp.
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