[2021] KEHC 1433 (KLR)
The court found that the applicant had already benefited from a resentencing exercise in which his sentence was reduced from 40 years to 18 years imprisonment. The applicant's current application for review was based solely on mitigation, with no new legal grounds or errors identified in the resentencing decision....
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- Citation
- [2021] KEHC 1433 (KLR)
- Parties
- Applicant: Charles Mwangi Njeri; Respondent: Republic
- Court
- High Court
- Court Station
- High Court at Kerugoya
- Jurisdiction
- Kenya
- Case Number
- Criminal Revision 8 of 2020
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal Revision / Ruling on Application for Review of Sentence
- Outcome
- application dismissed
- Judges
- JK Mulwa, RM Mwongo
- Legal Topics
- Robbery With Violence, Sentencing Review, Criminal Appeals, Mitigation Factors
- Source Language
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Parties
Charles Mwangi Njeri
Applicant
Republic
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Criminal Revision / Ruling on Application for Review of Sentence
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the applicant has established grounds for revision of sentence under Section 333(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
- 2 Whether mitigation alone is sufficient to warrant further reduction of sentence after resentencing.
Ratio Decidendi
The court found that the applicant had already benefited from a resentencing exercise in which his sentence was reduced from 40 years to 18 years imprisonment. The applicant's current application for review was based solely on mitigation, with no new legal grounds or errors identified in the resentencing decision. The court held that mitigation alone, without more, does not justify further revision of a sentence that has already been lawfully reconsidered. Accordingly, the application lacked merit and was dismissed.
Court Disposition
application dismissed
Orders
- The application for review of sentence is dismissed.
Full Case Text
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22 paragraphs
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA
AT KERUGOYA
CRIMINAL REVISION NO. 8 OF 2020
CHARLES MWANGI NJERI.................................................................APPLICANT
VERSUS
REPUBLIC..........................................................................................PROSECUTION
(From the original conviction and sentence in Criminal Case No. 117 of 2017
of theSenior Principal Magistrate’s Court at Baricho)
RULING
1. The Applicant Charles Mwangi Njeri was charged with the offence of Robbery with violence contrary to Section 296(2) of the Penal Code and sentenced to forty years imprisonment at Baricho PMCC Criminal case No. 117 of 2017.
2. He appealed at the High Court in Kerugoya in Cr. Application No. 34/2019where the court upheld his conviction but allowed the appeal on sentence which was commuted to 18 years imprisonment.
3. The Applicant lodged a second appeal, Court of Appeal No. 34/2020 on 3rd November, 202 but withdrew it. He proceeded to apply for review of his sentence at the High Court through an application dated 29th October, 2020 and filed on 3rd November, 2020 and sought for review of his re-sentencing ruling when his sentence was reduced to 18 years imprisonment. His grounds for the application are in the form of mitigating factors.
4. I have considered the application. The prosecution did not offer any submissions but left it for court’s decision. What the Applicant is seeking is a review/revision of the High court’s decision against his appeal where the court reduced his sentence to 18 years from 40 years imprisonment.
5. He has offered no single ground to warrant revision in terms of Section 333(2) of the Criminal Procedure code, or any ground at all, save for mitigation, which I believe the learned Judge, Gitari considered in her judgment dated 8th October, 2020.
6. Having been re-sentenced and his sentence reduced, I find no merit in the application. It is dismissed.
DATED AND SIGNED THIS……………..DAY OF…..………... 2021
HON. J. N. MULWA
JUDGE
DELIVERED AT KERUGOYA THIS 11TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2021
HON. R. MWONGO
JUDGE