Read the full judgment text of CACC 000227/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 25 July 1997.
1. The applicant faced four charges and he was convicted on each of them. They involved counterfeit video compact discs, music discs, CD-Roms and 190 obscene video compact discs. Large numbers were involved. There were 7,085 video compact discs of films, (Charge 1), about 8,000 video and music discs (Charge 2) and 388 CD-ROMs (Charge 3). This was his fourth offence for this type of illegal activity. He was at the time on probation for a similar offence. Judge Whaley, before sentencing, obtained