Inmate On Perjury Charges
Newcastle Herald
Thursday December 4, 2003
A STUDY of case law back to 1896 was of no help in deciding a penalty for a man who had twice perjured himself, a barrister told Newcastle District Court yesterday.
John Fitzgerald said that his client, Robert Bradley Mahoney, 41, Cessnock jail inmate, should receive a sentence concurrent with what he was now serving because the perjuries occurred when Mahoney gave evidence at his trial on drug charges.
The Crown argued for a consecutive sentence.
Mahoney pleaded guilty to making the false statements on February 9, 2001. Judge Jennifer English will sentence Mahoney tomorrow.
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