Sweeney received admission to practice in 1987 and served as counsel at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) and the former Crown Solicitor\u2019s Office for 17 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe began her counsel days at the Crown Solicitor’s Office and was fast-tracked to criminal jury trials, before joining the ODPP at its inception in 1992 under the Hon. John McKechnie AO KC,\u201d Buti said. \u201cJudge Sweeney’s career at the ODPP saw her rise in the ranks to the positions of Senior State Prosecutor and Consultant State Prosecutor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sweeney\u2019s practice, spanning nearly two decades, includes more than 15 years focusing on criminal trials and appeals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before WA\u2019s District and Supreme Courts, she prosecuted criminal trials, including long and complex murder trials as well as sexual assault, child abuse, fraud, and drug trials. She appealed convictions and sentences before the Court of Appeal and argued special leave applications before the High Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHer Honour’s experience in criminal law spans more than 35 years, during which she has served with distinction across a multitude of complex matters both as a counsel and a Judge,\u201d Buti said in the state government\u2019s media statement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweeney received admission to practice in 1987 and served as counsel at the Office of the Director of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,42523,44,86561,86562],"class_list":["post-123027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-court-of-appeal","tag-news","tag-troy-sweeney","tag-western-australia-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}