24 Nov 2022
R v MOSES & COOPER [2022] NZHC 3089
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 3089
- Court
- High Court
Court selected the charge of participating in an organised criminal group as the lead offence and fixed a global starting point of six years six months imprisonment to reflect organised, premeditated gang offending involving firearms; applied objective findings that Moses possessed a small firearm and shots were fired from Cooper's vehicle; after allowing specified mitigation (Moses: ten months for s27, five months EM bail, three months cooperation; Cooper: ten months s27, three months curfew bail, three months cooperation) the sentences imposed were five years imprisonment for Moses and five…
- Participating in an organised criminal group
- Intentional damage to property
- Use of firearms
- Sentencing starting point
- Mitigating credits (s27, em bail, curfew, cooperation)