1Where a prosecutor's statement of material facts does not assert a specific quantity of a prohibited drug, a sentencing magistrate cannot be taken to have sentenced on the basis of a full quantity; the court found on the facts that the magistrate sentenced on the basis of an unknown quantity.
2An accused who accepts the facts as read by the prosecutor at a guilty plea hearing, without contradiction, cannot later contend on appeal that the sentencing court proceeded on an incorrect factual basis where the facts as stated were not themselves inaccurate.
3A fine of $600 constitutes 'minor punishment' under s 11(4) of the Spent Convictions Act 1988 (WA) read with reg 3 of the Spent Convictions Regulations 1992 (WA) (threshold $1,500) and does not reset the prescribed period for a spent conviction application.
