By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The unique aspect of law enforcement is that the state allows officers of the law to legally apply physical force or violence towards civilians, and, in the case of the NSW Police Force (NSWPF), this permission to commit acts of force, otherwise illegal, in the line of duty, is… Read more »
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NSW Sex Crime Squad Detective Imprisoned for Sexual Offences
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim New South Wales police detective Glen Coleman, who was attached to the sex crimes and child abuse squad, was on temporary assignment at Windsor police station on 17 February 2022, when he commenced inquiries into a case involving a 19-year-old woman, whose cousin was threatening to post intimate photos… Read more »
Drug User Convicted of Manslaughter for Supplying Drugs Causing Death Succeeds on Appeal
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Serotonin is a chemical in the brain that puts a person in a good mood. A lack of serotonin can make a person depressed. The drugs Moclobemide and Venlafaxine can be used to treat low serotonin levels. And a combination of these drugs can produce a psychoactive reaction, making… Read more »
Sentencing Judges Must Make Clear That Mitigating Factors Were Considered
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On 28 October 2022, Abbrar Abbas arrived at Sydney Airport, after two days in Fiji. On collecting his baggage and presenting his incoming passenger card to an Australian Border Force officer, the International student was taken to a baggage examination area, and a bottle of yellow liquid was found… Read more »
The Fact an Offence Reduces the Likelihood of Parole is a Mitigating Factor on Sentence
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Fayez Hatahet travelled to Syria on an Air Jordan flight on 25 September 2012, as he was attempting to secure the release of his brother-in-law, whom he believed was being held by an armed group in that country. However, on arrival, Hatahet went on to engage in hostile activities… Read more »
Past Offending is Irrelevant When Assessing the Objective Seriousness of a Crime
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Over 20 January 2021 to 16 June 2022, NSW woman Rania Bazzi perpetrated a string of offences that Justice Richard Button of the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (NSWCCA) went on to describe as crimes that were not “of the utmost gravity”, but the nine offences she plead guilty… Read more »
The Principles that Apply to Sentencing Aged Offenders in NSW
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim After having gone to the bathroom late night on 31 March 2020, Zhiyun Liu returned to bed, equipped with a meat tenderiser and a long knife, and commenced bashing his wife, Ming Zhu Lu, about the head with the mallet and he stabbed her in the sternum and deep… Read more »
Testimony Suggesting Potential Past Criminal Conduct Enough to Warrant Retrial
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim The National Australia Bank in Seven Hills was held up on 6 June 2012, just before quarter to three in the afternoon, when a stolen Mercedes pulled up out the front, and two men with face coverings jumped out and ran into the building in an attempt to secure… Read more »
NSW Chief Justice Issues Guidance on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Court
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Generative artificial intelligence, or Gen AI, is part of the broader AI computer science, which is geared to machine learning and problem-solving, and it focuses on the creation of new content, which can include visual images, audio or text. And there are a number of well-known platforms that can… Read more »
Being a Victim of Domestic Violence Can Amount to a Mitigating Factor on Sentence
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim Rebecca Payne made a second batch of biscuits on 1 September 2020, after acquiring a new recipe from a friend a few days prior, except this time, she laced the icing on one of the biscuits with several crushed temazepam pills she’d been prescribed for insomnia and fed it… Read more »
