Read the full judgment text of DCCC 1068/2015 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 5 May 2016.
1. Before the defendant’s arraignment, the prosecution indicated to the court that of the two offences the defendant faced on the charge sheet, they would elect to proceed against him on the first one only, the second charge being a substantive offence falling within the scope of the conspiracy offence in the first charge. The defence raised no objection to the prosecution’s election. In consequence, the defendant was arraigned in respect of the first charge of conspiracy to traffic in a dange