R v BS
BS was charged with supplying 74 grams of Ice, whilst on bail for a previous serious drug supply offence. Whilst awaiting trial BS was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for numerous other drug supply charges that had occurred prior to this offence.
Matthew Berrell represented BS and made submissions that the term of imprisonment for his latest drug supply charge should run concurrently with the sentence he was already serving. This would avoid BS having to serve an additional lengthy term of imprisonment on top of his current sentence.
These submissions were accepted and the Court backdated BS’s sentence so that it ran concurrently with the sentences he was currently serving. The result of this was that he was able to be released on parole that same day that he was sentenced.
This was a great result for BS as he was able to return to the community immediately, rather than serve an additional number of years incarcerated.