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…