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AG -v- Highfield [2017] JRC 140 (01 September 2017)
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Inferior Number Sentencing - drugs- possession - Class B.
[2017]JRC140
Royal Court
(Samedi)
1 September 2017
Before :
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Sir William Bailhache, Bailiff, and Jurats
Olsen and Sparrow
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The Attorney General
-v-
Wayne Mark Highfield
Sentencing by the Inferior
Number of the Royal Court, following a guilty plea to the following charge:
1 count of:
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Possession of a controlled drug, contrary to
Article 8(1) of the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 (Count 5).
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Age: 32.
Plea: Guilty.
Details of Offence:
On 28th December, 2015, police
officers attended at the defendant's address in respect of an unrelated
investigation. On entering the
property they found a lump of suspected cannabis resin on the coffee table
which was seized. The cannabis resin
was weighed at 0.9 grams. The defendant
admitted in interview that the cannabis resin belonged to him and that he had
purchased it a few days earlier.
Aggravating Features
Previous conviction for possession
of the same drug in 2003.
Details of Mitigation:
Full co-operation with Police.
Guilty pleas entered at the
earliest stage.
Previous Convictions:
2 previous convictions for 3
offences including possession of Cannabis Resin in 2003.
Conclusions:
Count 5:
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£300 fine, to be paid within 7 days or
21 days' imprisonment in default.
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Forfeiture and destruction of the
drugs sought.
Sentence and Observations of Court:
Count 5:
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£100 fine, to be paid within 7 days or
7 days' imprisonment in default.
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Forfeiture and
destruction of the drugs ordered.
S. C. Thomas, Esq., Crown Advocate.
Advocate J. M. Grace for the Defendant.
JUDGMENT
THE BAILIFF:
1.
It is your
second offence but the Court does not consider that we ought to take the first
one into account as it was 14 years ago and you were also a juvenile at the
time.
2.
In the
circumstances you are fined £100 which should be paid within 7 days and
if you do not pay it within 7 days there will be 7 days' imprisonment in
default.
3.
We order
the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs.
No Authorities