Knight v R

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against sentence
  3. › Causal link between mental condition and offending
  4. › Whether evidence established causal connection between diagnosed mental disorders and offending conduct
  5. › Whether sentencing judge erred in not reducing moral culpability or weight of general deterrence
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Appeal against sentence
  3. › Manifest excess
  4. › Aggregate sentence
  5. › Whether sentence manifestly excessive
  6. › Relevance of offender's subjective circumstances
  7. › Distinction between [name withheld]/[name withheld] deprivation and interpersonal abuse
  8. › Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), ss 112(2), 35(3), 316(1)
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Sentencing
  3. › Aboriginal offenders
  4. › [name withheld] and [name withheld] principles
  5. › Whether principles engaged where offender's disadvantage arose from interpersonal abuse rather than family or societal dysfunction

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