A judge upholds a decision not to jail a Melbourne man who attacked two Victorian paramedics while in a psychotic state after taking a cocktail of drugs at a festival.
A judge has upheld a decision not to jail a Melbourne man who attacked two Victorian paramedics while in a"psychotic state" after taking a cocktail of drugs at a festival.
Prosecutors appealed the decision on the grounds that"it was not open to the Magistrate to impose any sentence other than a custodial sentence" as required under the Sentencing Act. The Melbourne Magistrates' Court previously heard Haberfield went missing in an"acutely psychotic state" after the Rainbow Serpent alternative music and arts festival, during which he had consumed"a cocktail of drugs" including ice, MDMA and ketamine.
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