Mohinder Singh, 49, was quick on sleep and excessive on medication when he veered right into a service lane and crashed a 19-tonne semi-trailer into the Victoria Law enforcement officials, who had pulled over Porsche driver Richard Pusey for rushing.
Constable Lynette Taylor, Senior Constable Kevin King, and constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney had been killed within the April 2020 crash.
Singh was final yr jailed for 22 years after pleading responsible to culpable driving inflicting demise.
He should serve 18-and-a-half years earlier than he's eligible for parole.
He appeared in Victoria's Courtroom of Attraction on Monday by videolink from jail, along with his barrister Peter Morrissey arguing the sentence was "manifestly extreme".
Morrissey mentioned the sentence didn't give sufficient weight to Singh's early plea of responsible, his regret and his psychological issues.
He mentioned Supreme Courtroom Justice Paul Coghlan's sentence on every of the 4 culpable driving offences was "extraordinarily stern".
"The unique sentence is just too huge... It wanted to be a lot lighter than it was," he informed the courtroom.
Morrissey additionally argued Singh's non-parole interval was too lengthy and that his consumer had some prospects for rehabilitation.
Prosecutors rejected the attraction's grounds, arguing the sentence and non-parole interval had been inside the vary open to Justice Coghlan for such critical offending.
Households of the 4 law enforcement officials attended the attraction listening to, which continues earlier than President Karin Emerton and Justices Emilios Kyrou and Terry Forrest.
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