The combination of significant unexplained delay not attributable to the applicant (over 5 years), the sentencing judge's apparent failure to consider that delay as a mitigating factor, the likelihood of serving a substantial portion of the non-parole period before the appeal could be heard, and the prosecution's concession that a suspended sentence was a live option, can together constitute exceptional reasons for bail pending appeal against sentence under the Bail Act 1982 (WA).
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