Read the full judgment text of CACC 000339/2008 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 May 2009.
1. The applicant, an Indonesian, was charged with two other Indonesians (D1 and D3 respectively) with trafficking in a crystalline sold containing 2,891.63 grammes of methamphetamine hydrochloride (‘ice’). He pleaded guilty before Deputy High Court Judge Geiser on 1 February 2008 and was sentenced on the same day to 14 years’ imprisonment. The applicant now, many months out of time, seeks leave to appeal on what he describes as ‘humanitarian grounds’.