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New Zealand Case Law

Conspiracy to import drugs
  • 11 Nov 2022

    THE KING v ALVERADO [2022] NZHC 2946

    Citation
    [2022] NZHC 2946
    Court
    High Court

    Starting point of seven years imprisonment adopted for the methamphetamine offending based on Band 3 in Zhang and the defendant's significant role; money laundering was at lower end and absorbed into that starting point. Applied 1 year 9 months discount for guilty pleas, then additional discounts totalling 19 months (7 months for first offender status, 9 months for remorse and rehabilitation prospects, 3 months for disadvantages as a foreign national) yielding aggregate reductions of 3 years 4 months and a final sentence of 3 years 8 months for meth charges and 2 years for money laundering, a…