Case Primary charge(s) Sentence Nature of Outcome Successful New sentence Date of appeal of appeal ground (if (if any) judgment any) Reid (a Convicted of incest 18 years and Appeal Allowed Manifest 14 years’ 1 July 2014 Maxwell P, Pseudonym) v (13 charges), produce eight months’ against excess; the imprisonment, Whelan and the child pornography imprisonment, sentence total effective non-parole Priest JJA (one charge) and non-parole sentence period of 10 [2014] VSCA indecent act with child period of 14 and years 145 under 16 or 17 under years eight period care, supervision or months were outside authority (one charge) the range of those properly open in the sound exercise of the sentencing discretion
Case Primary charge(s) Sentence Nature of appeal Outcome of appeal Successful ground (if any) New sentence (if any) Date of judgment Reid (a Pseudonym) v the [2014] VSCA 145 Convicted of incest (13 charges), produce child pornography (one charge) and indecent act with child under 16 or 17 under care, supervision or authority (one charge) 18 years and eight months’ imprisonment, non-parole period of 14 years eight months Appeal against sentence Allowed Manifest excess; the total effective sentence and period were outside the range of those properly open in the sound exercise of the sentencing discretion 14 years’ imprisonment, non-parole period of 10 years 1 July 2014 Maxwell P, Whelan and Priest JJA
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