15 Mar 2022
NZ POLICE v CRANCH [2022] NZHC 461
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 461
- Court
- High Court
Although the District Court's starting point of 24 months was manifestly inadequate for the gravity of offender's possession of 22 firearms (19 MSSA) and large ammunition quantities, the appeal is dismissed because prosecutor acquiescence at sentence indication, the sentence being accepted on that indication, procedural history and delay, the respondent's compliance and near completion of home detention, absence of direct victims and risk of injustice from replacing a non-custodial sentence with imprisonment mean this Court should not substitute a custodial sentence on appeal.
- Possession of prohibited firearms
- Home detention vs imprisonment
- Starting point in sentencing
- Credit for assistance to police
- Prosecutor acquiescence
- Manifestly inadequate sentence