A sentence of eight years' imprisonment for trafficking in methylamphetamine over approximately 12 months, involving 37 identifiable sales totalling at least $87,800 at above street level, is within the appropriate range where the offender has a significant criminal history including prior convictions for commercial drug importation and commenced offending within three months of release on parole. An applicant who alleges they were tricked by their legal representatives into being sentenced on incorrect facts bears the onus of proving those allegations on the balance of probabilities, and unsupported assertions inconsistent with signed written instructions and the evidence of the legal representatives will not discharge that onus.
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