[2022] KEHC 16787 (KLR)
The court noted that the applicant, Reagan Ochieng Ngwela, had already served the one-year imprisonment sentence imposed for possession of narcotics and psychotropic substances. As the sentence had been completed, there was no practical purpose in revising the sentence. The court therefore closed the file and made...
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- Citation
- [2022] KEHC 16787 (KLR)
- Parties
- Applicant: Reagan Ochieng Ngwela; Respondent: Republic
- Court
- High Court
- Court Station
- High Court at Siaya
- Jurisdiction
- Kenya
- Case Number
- Criminal Revision E102 of 2022
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal Revision / Ruling
- Outcome
- Application for sentence revision rendered moot as sentence already served; file closed.
- Judges
- RE Aburili
- Legal Topics
- Sentence Revision, Narcotics Possession, Psychotropic Substances, Criminal Sentencing
- Source Language
- en
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Parties
Reagan Ochieng Ngwela
Applicant
Republic
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Criminal Revision / Ruling
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the applicant's sentence for possession of narcotics and psychotropic substances should be revised.
Ratio Decidendi
The court noted that the applicant, Reagan Ochieng Ngwela, had already served the one-year imprisonment sentence imposed for possession of narcotics and psychotropic substances. As the sentence had been completed, there was no practical purpose in revising the sentence. The court therefore closed the file and made no further orders regarding the sentence.
Court Disposition
Application for sentence revision rendered moot as sentence already served; file closed.
Orders
- This file is closed.
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Ngwela v Republic (Criminal Revision E102 of 2022) [2022] KEHC 16787 (KLR) (20 December 2022) (Ruling)
Neutral citation: [2022] KEHC 16787 (KLR)
Republic of Kenya
In the High Court at Siaya
Criminal Revision E102 of 2022
RE Aburili, J
December 20, 2022
Between
Reagan Ochieng Ngwela
Applicant
and
Republic
Respondent
(Being an Application for sentence revision in Bondo PM Criminal Case No. E1207 of 2021 delivered by Hon P.Nandi, Principal Magistrate on 15/9/2021)
Ruling
1. On 15/9/2021 the convict herein Reagan Ochieng Ngwela was sentenced to serve one-year imprisonment for the offence of being found in possession of narcotics and psychotropic substances.
2. The convict must have served sentence by now.
3. This file is closed.
4. I so order.
Dated, signed and delivered at Siaya, this 20thDay of December, 2022R.E. ABURILIJUDGE