A nine-year head sentence for trafficking in schedule 1 drugs (MDMA) over a period of just over one year, involving a sophisticated dark-web-based enterprise with over 600 orders and $400,000 turnover, was within the appropriate range of 10-12 years reduced by application of the totality principle to account for related interstate imprisonment. The totality principle from Mill v The Queen requires moderation of both the head sentence and the non-parole period where an offender has already served a sentence in another State for related offending.
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