Sentence for Drug Supply and Proceeds of Crime Amounted to Double Punishment

By Sydney Criminal Lawyers - Published 22/05/2018

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim After receiving information that one Aaron Edward Hutchinson was involved in the supply of prohibited drugs in the Penrith local area command, police began an investigation in early 2010. An undercover operation was arranged and, in April, Mr Hutchinson supplied an undercover officer with cocaine on three separate occasions.… 

DPP Appeals ‘Inadequate’ Sentence for Large Commercial Drug Supply

By Sydney Criminal Lawyers - Published 15/05/2018

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Damon Ehrlich was arrested on 15 November 2009, in relation to 261.6 grams of methamphetamine that NSW police found in the possession of Lasalo Paeu at Sydney airport. Mr Paeu and Brent Taylor were about to board a plane to Perth, in order to supply the drugs for on… 

Factors are not ‘Aggravating’ if they are Implicit in the Offence

By Sydney Criminal Lawyers - Published 08/05/2018

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 24 August 2006, a NSW police undercover operative spoke to Bilal Mansour on his mobile phone and arranged to purchase 3.5 grams of cocaine from him for $1,250. Mansour then drove from his place to his parent’s home, where the deal took place on the veranda. The undercover… 

Murder Sentence Reduced Because Judge Misapplied the Law

By Sydney Criminal Lawyers - Published 01/05/2018

By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 30 April 2003, Campsie tiler Gil Bum Yun was celebrating his thirtieth birthday at his Beaumont Street unit, when the men present decided to take the party to a local karaoke bar. Mr Yun lived at the apartment with his mother and an older man, Sun Chun Zie,…