Mr Wiseman was scheduled to be sentenced in Dubbo District Court yesterday after pleading guilty to supplying a commercial quantity of cannabis before a Sydney court in April.

However, proceedings were adjourned because of a dispute between the prosecution and defence over the agreed facts of his crime.

Mr Wiseman was allegedly the ringleader of an organisation which distributed cannabis throughout western NSW.

He and a group of cohorts were arrested in a series of dawn raids on homes throughout Dubbo and Taree on May 3 last year.

In court yesterday Mr Wiseman's new defence counsel William O'Brien said his client maintained his plea of guilty.

However, an adjournment would be necessary to both allow time for the dispute over the facts to be resolved, and for psychiatric and pre-sentence reports to be compiled on Mr Wiseman, Mr O'Brien said.

Prosecutor Chris Bailey said difficulties arose because he did not know the particulars of a deal which was struck between the prosecution and defence in Sydney, leading to the guilty plea.

Although noting it was a case of "some importance" to the Dubbo community, Mr O'Brien requested the matter be transferred back to Sydney.

Mr Bailey opposed the request, telling Judge Robert Woods: "In every way it is a case which ought to be disposed of in the community where it occurred."

Judge Woods refused to transfer the matter, and adjourned it until October, warning "by then everything better be ready".

Mr Wiseman, 45, did not apply for bail.

Six of his cohorts will be sentenced in Sydney next Friday.