Australia, May 9 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on April 9:
1. DAVIES J: I agree with Lonergan J.
2. LONERGAN J: The applicant, Elias Elchaar, seeks leave to appeal against the sentence imposed on him following his plea of guilty to conspiring to traffic a commercial quantity of a controlled drug, namely methamphetamine. Two offences that occurred during the same period and circumstances of the other offending were also taken into account in the Section 16BA Schedule.
3. The sentencing judge, Buscombe DCJ, imposed a term of imprisonment of 10 years and 6 months, with a non-parole period of 6 years and 6 months, which took into account a 25% reduction in sentence based on the guilty pl...