The case illustrates the sentencing range for conspiracy to traffic commercial quantities of heroin and conspiracy to launder money exceeding $1 million and $5 million under the Criminal Code 1995 (Cth). The parity principle does not require reduction of a co-offender's sentence by reference to a sentence that is itself the subject of a Crown appeal for manifest inadequacy. Where a sentencing judge transposes sentences between counts and fails to fix commencement dates under s 19(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth), the sentencing discretion is re-opened. Complete concurrency may be warranted where there is a 'complete correlation' between money laundering and trafficking conduct, even where the offences involve additional criminality.
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