A sentence of five years' imprisonment with parole eligibility after 18 months is within range for trafficking in methylamphetamine over approximately seven weeks at a high-end street-level and occasional wholesale level, where the offender is a mature-aged first-time prisoner who pleaded guilty, had good employment history, and voluntarily desisted from offending. The sentencing judge's characterisation of the level of offending may be based on agreed facts including intercepted conversations about wholesale quantities even where the Crown concedes it cannot prove those transactions were completed.
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