25 Oct 2017
TAHJ OLDHAM v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2017] NZHC 2602
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2602
- Court
- High Court
The District Court's minimum period of imprisonment exceeded the statutory maximum in s 86(4) and was therefore quashed; on rehearing the High Court held a minimum period was nevertheless appropriate under s 86(2) having regard to accountability, denunciation and deterrence and the whole offending narrative (including contemporaneous violent offending and the pre-sentence assessment), but reduced the minimum to a lawful and proportionate term of 1 year and 8 months having regard to s 8(e) consistency, the absence of comparative minimum-period decisions, and mitigation factors including remors…