The Wong and Leung guideline sentences no longer operate as a useful guide for sentencing federal drug offences under s 305.3 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). In sentencing for Commonwealth drug manufacturing offences, courts may have regard to both federal drug importation sentencing patterns and state drug manufacturing sentencing patterns; the true comparator is offences having sufficient parallels with the offence being sentenced. Standard non-parole period regimes under state law cannot be applied by transference to federal offenders.
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