3 Feb 2022
R v NEVILLE KING [2022] NZHC 85
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 85
- Court
- High Court
Adjournment under s25 and bail simpliciter were declined because the defendant could not discharge the evidential onus under s17A of the Bail Act, there was justifiable risk (including risk of flight) and inability to impose effective bail conditions (EM bail not viable at proposed facility), and because no detailed independent plan for the proposed rehabilitation programme had been presented; the court adopted Lang J's starting point of eight years and nine months for the methamphetamine offending, uplifted by nine months for modified firearm and ammunition (total starting point 9 years 6 mo…