[2017] KEHC 9328 (KLR)
The court found that the applicant had served a sufficient sentence and there was no lawful reason to continue holding him in custody. Accordingly, the applicant was ordered to be set free unless otherwise lawfully held.
Source-derived case information.
- Citation
- [2017] KEHC 9328 (KLR)
- Parties
- Applicant: Dan Ochieng; Respondent: Republic
- Court
- High Court
- Court Station
- High Court at Nairobi (Milimani Law Courts)
- Jurisdiction
- Kenya
- Case Number
- Criminal Revision 198 of 2017
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal Revision / Ruling
- Outcome
- application allowed
- Legal Topics
- Sentence Review, Release From Custody
- Source Language
- en
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Parties
Dan Ochieng
Applicant
Republic
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Criminal Revision / Ruling
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the applicant has served a sufficient sentence to warrant release.
Ratio Decidendi
The court found that the applicant had served a sufficient sentence and there was no lawful reason to continue holding him in custody. Accordingly, the applicant was ordered to be set free unless otherwise lawfully held.
Court Disposition
application allowed
Orders
- Applicant is forthwith set free unless otherwise lawfully held.
Full Case Text
Judgment text and source record
12 paragraphs
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI
CRIMINAL DIVISION
CR. REV. NO 198 OF 2017
DAN OCHIENG............................................................APPLICANT
VERSUS
REPUBLIC................................................................RESPONDENT
RULING
Applicant has served sufficient sentence. He is forthwith set free unless otherwise lawfully held.
DATED and DELIVERED this 31stday ofJuly, 2017.
G.W. NGENYE-MACHARIA
JUDGE