[2024] KEHC 15151 (KLR)
The court found that the trial court had properly considered all relevant factors before sentencing, including mitigation, time spent in remand, and the applicant's status as a first offender. The sentence of thirty years for murder was found to be legal and appropriate in the circumstances. The applicant failed to...
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- Citation
- [2024] KEHC 15151 (KLR)
- Parties
- Applicant: Godfrey Ochieng Odalo; Respondent: Republic
- Court
- High Court
- Court Station
- High Court at Kibera
- Jurisdiction
- Kenya
- Case Number
- Petition E009 of 2024
- Procedural Posture
- Criminal Revision / Ruling on Petition for Revision of Sentence
- Outcome
- application dismissed
- Judges
- DR Kavedza
- Legal Topics
- Murder, Sentencing Revision, Standard of Proof, Constitutional Rights, Mitigation, Remand Custody
- Source Language
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Parties
Godfrey Ochieng Odalo
Applicant
Republic
Respondent
Procedural Posture
Criminal Revision / Ruling on Petition for Revision of Sentence
Legal Issues
- 1 Whether the sentence imposed for murder was unlawful or excessive.
- 2 Whether the applicant's constitutional rights were violated during trial or sentencing.
- 3 Whether there was sufficient ground to revise the sentence imposed by the trial court.
Ratio Decidendi
The court found that the trial court had properly considered all relevant factors before sentencing, including mitigation, time spent in remand, and the applicant's status as a first offender. The sentence of thirty years for murder was found to be legal and appropriate in the circumstances. The applicant failed to demonstrate any illegality, impropriety, or violation of constitutional rights that would warrant revision of the sentence. Consequently, there was no good cause or reason to interfere with or revise the sentence imposed by the trial court.
Court Disposition
application dismissed
Orders
- The application for revision of sentence is dismissed for lack of merit.
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Odalo v Republic (Petition E009 of 2024) [2024] KEHC 15151 (KLR) (3 December 2024) (Ruling)
Neutral citation: [2024] KEHC 15151 (KLR)
Republic of Kenya
In the High Court at Kibera
Petition E009 of 2024
DR Kavedza, J
December 3, 2024
Between
Godfrey Ochieng Odalo
Petitioner
and
Republic
Respondent
Ruling
1. The applicant was charged and after a full trial convicted of the offence of murder contrary to section 203 as read with 204 of the Penal Code. He was sentenced to serve thirty (30) years imprisonment.
2. He has filed the present petition on 17th September 2024 seeking revision of sentence imposed. The grounds raised are that the prosecution failed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt, and that he was denied several of his fundamental rights as provided in the Constitution.
3. I have considered the petition, the grounds in support and the applicable law. From the record of the trial court, the court considered the petitioner’s mitigation, the time spent in remand custody and the fact that the petitioner was a first offender before sentencing. Having considered the application in its totality, it is my finding that the sentence imposed was also legal in the circumstances of the case.
4. In my view I find no good cause or reason to revise the sentence imposed by the trial court.
5. The application dismissed for lacking in merit.
Orders accordingly.
RULING DATED AND DELIVERED VIRTUALLY THIS 3RDDAY OF DECEMBER 2024D. KAVEDZAJUDGE