Possession of three different prohibited drugs, even in small quantities, may be regarded as sufficiently serious to justify refusal of a spent conviction order on the basis that the offences are not trivial. The deliberate nature of possessing multiple different drugs, as opposed to a single substance, is a material factor in assessing triviality under s 45(1)(b) of the Sentencing Act (WA).
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