Job secure and firearms returned

At 31 our client, a FIFO diesel mechanic and avid hunter, was facing his first interaction with the criminal justice system after being charged with failing to provide adequate storage for his firearms and ammunition. It was absolutely critical for his existing and future employment prospects that we obtain spent convictions for those charges. It was also desirable, on a personal level, that we resist the prosecution application to forfeit our clients firearms and ammunition. At sentencing and despite strong resistance from both the prosecution and the Magistrate, our thorough preparation and advocacy enabled us to successfully persuade the magistrate to not only to impose minimal fines and declare the convictions spent, but to order the return of the seized firearms and ammunition to our client.