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Criminal Law [2024] KEHC 3032 (KLR)

Kulei v ODPP

Kulei v ODPP [2024] KEHC 3032 (KLR)

The High Court dismissed a criminal petition challenging sentence legality, finding the application was in substance an appeal or review best taken to the Court of Appeal.

  • Sentencing Of Juveniles
  • Constitutionality Of Sentence
  • Fair Trial Rights
  • Remand Time Credit
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Constitutional-petition
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Criminal Law [2023] KEHC 4158 (KLR)

MMM v Republic

MMM v Republic [2023] KEHC 4158 (KLR)

The High Court set aside a sentence sending a boy under 17 to a corrective training centre and remitted the matter for lawful resentencing.

  • Sentencing Of Juveniles
  • Revision Of Sentence
  • Prisons Act Interpretation
  • Juvenile-sentencing
  • Criminal-revision
  • Corrective-training-centre
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Criminal Law [2017] KEHC 4859 (KLR)

JM v Republic

JM v Republic [2017] KEHC 4859 (KLR)

High Court quashed a defilement conviction after finding evidential gaps, a problematic voire dire, and failure to call a crucial witness. It also held the prison sentence for a minor was unlawful.

  • Defilement Of Minors
  • Child Offender Rights
  • Sentencing Of Juveniles
  • Evidence In Sexual Offences
  • Voire Dire Examination
  • Burden Of Proof
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Criminal Law [2012] KEHC 886 (KLR)

B.K V REPUBLIC

B.K V REPUBLIC [2012] KEHC 886 (KLR)

The High Court upheld a defilement conviction but set aside the 20-year sentence because the appellant was a juvenile when the offence was committed.

  • Defilement Of Minors
  • Sentencing Of Juveniles
  • Children Act Application
  • Defilement
  • Juvenile-sentencing
  • Children-act
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Criminal Law [2000] KEHC 219 (KLR)

HOSEA KIUNA WANJIRU vs REPUBLIC

HOSEA KIUNA WANJIRU vs REPUBLIC [2000] KEHC 219 (KLR)

A 17-year-old appellant’s guilty plea conviction for rape was upheld, but the High Court set aside the prison sentence and substituted probation.

  • Sentencing Of Juveniles
  • Probation Orders
  • Plea Of Guilty
  • Rape Offences
  • Juvenile-sentencing
  • Probation-orders
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