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New Zealand Case Law

Young adult mitigation
  • 5 Oct 2020

    WOODSTOCK v R [2020] NZCA 472

    Citation
    [2020] NZCA 472
    Court
    Court of Appeal

    Extension of time to file the appeal granted; the starting point for the aggravated robbery was within range but the judge failed to allow a mitigating discount of 18 months for the appellant's social and economic deprivation and young adult rehabilitation prospects; the totality adjustment for cumulative sentences was insufficient and required an overall increase to two years; accordingly the sentence for aggravated robbery was set aside and substituted with four years and six months' imprisonment to be served cumulatively on the existing two years two months' sentence, producing an effectiv…