30 Jul 2018
R v KINGI [2018] NZHC 1905
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 1905
- Court
- High Court
For defendants who participated late in a series of confrontational incidents but with knowledge of earlier serious events, a starting point of 15 months imprisonment for rioting is appropriate; restrictive EM bail conditions and an acknowledged guilty plea justified downward adjustments of three months each in Mr Kingi's case, producing a nine month sentence; prior convictions of a nuisance character did not warrant uplift.