The Court of Appeal refused an extension of time to apply for leave to appeal against a nine-year sentence (with a four-and-a-half-year non-parole period) for conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of cannabis, finding no significant prospects of success and no adequate explanation for the four-month delay. The Court held the sentence was within the appropriate range by reference to comparable authorities (R v [name withheld]; R v [name withheld]), even accounting for the moderating factor that the importation was abandoned before completion, and noted the sentence was within the range suggested by defence counsel at trial.
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