18 Dec 2018
R v SCANLON [2018] NZHC 3376
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 3376
- Court
- High Court
Adopted a starting point of 15 months' imprisonment for the offending, applied a three month uplift for the defendant's extensive prior record, granted a four month reduction for over a year on EM bail, yielding an end sentence of 14 months' imprisonment, and then commuted that to seven months' home detention because the defendant's assistance to the fugitive was substantially motivated by a history of domestic violence, the fugitive will be imprisoned long-term (reducing future risk), and home detention was the least restrictive sentence that appropriately balanced denunciation, deterrence a…