Denial of Indigenous man's request to be sentenced by Koori court found to be unlawful

Zayden Cemino’s transfer request had been refused by magistrate, partly because of the location of offences

The authority of Victoria’s Koori court received a boost on Monday following a supreme court decision that a magistrate acted unlawfully in refusing a young Aboriginal man’s request to be sentenced by the Koori court in a nearby town.

In April last year, 19-year-old Zayden Cemino, a Yorta Yorta man from Echuca, had pleaded guilty to various offences, most of which related to riding a motorbike unlicensed.

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