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Queensland Judgments

[Full-text PDF] R v Pearse [2003] QCA 167 (02/0041) Brisb McMurdo P Williams JA Holmes J 22/04/2003 (delivered ex tempore)

Catchwords

CRIMINAL LAW – APPEAL AND NEW TRIAL AND INQUIRY AFTER CONVICTION – APPEAL AND NEW TRIAL – APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE – APPEAL BY CONVICTED PERSONS – APPLICATIONS TO REDUCE SENTENCE – WHEN REFUSED – GENERALLY – where applicant sentenced on various counts of fraud and related offences – where protracted pattern of dishonesty – where lenient sentence imposed