28 Jul 2020
PEENI v POLICE [2020] NZHC 1827
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1827
- Court
- High Court
No error was made in the sentencing judge's evaluative exercise; given the seriousness of the December 1 assault (impeding breathing), repeated breaches of protection orders, escalation of violence, high to medium risk of reoffending and prior failures of community/home detention, imprisonment rather than home detention was the appropriate and least inappropriate sentence; appeal dismissed.