24 Jun 2016
SOLICITOR-GENERAL v MCARTHUR [2016] NZHC 1403
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 1403
- Court
- High Court
The Judge erred in principle by taking pre-sentence detention into account when determining the length of the sentence, thereby improperly reducing an indicated term of imprisonment of three and a half years into the threshold for home detention; when the error is corrected the appropriate sentence is a term of imprisonment, and after allowing a six month adjustment for time served the Court substituted a sentence of three years' imprisonment.