Read the full judgment text of CACC 000458/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 16 January 2002.
1. On 31 August 1999, following a trial before Lugar-Mawson J and a jury, the Applicants (D1 and D2 respectively) were each convicted on a joint charge (count 2) of trafficking in a mixture weighing a little over 2.2 kilogrammes containing approximately 1.67 kilogrammes of heroin hydrochloride. D1 was additionally convicted (on count 1) of possession of a mixture containing 1.61 grammes of heroin hydrochloride, having been acquitted of the more serious alternative of trafficking. The judge impos