Court Reduces Collin Moodie’s Prison Sentence
The Court has reduced the 6 year sentence handed down to Collin Moodie, saying the “appeal is allowed and the sentence of 6 years imprisonment is quashed and substituted with a sentence of 4.5 years imprisonment.”
Mr Moodie — a U.S. resident — was jailed back in 2013 after being convicted of importing 241 grams of cocaine.
The Court ruling said, “The Appellant in this matter appeals against the sentence of 6 years imprisonment imposed on him in the Magistrates Court by the then Senior Magistrate [Wor. Archibald Warner] on the 23rd of July 2013 for conspiracy to import a controlled drug and possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. The drug in question was cocaine and the quantity was an amount in the region of 241 grams.”
“In all the circumstances of the present case I am satisfied that the sentence received by the Appellant in this case was excessive. But the reduction that he seeks from 6 years to 3 ½ years is too great, in my judgment, to meet the justice of the present case. The Appeal is allowed and the sentence of 6 years imprisonment is quashed and substituted with a sentence of 4 ½ years’ imprisonment.”
The Court’s ruling follows below [PDF here]:
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