Whether documents created after an applicant's sentencing have a legitimate forensic purpose for production under s 317 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2009 (Vic) is to be determined on the facts of each case, not by applying a general temporal cut-off at the date of sentence. In cases involving police informer misconduct extending beyond sentencing, post-sentence documents may have legitimate forensic purpose.
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