14 Aug 2019
THOMPSON v POLICE [2019] NZHC 1983
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 1983
- Court
- High Court
Cumulative sentences were legally permissible and necessary because statutory maximums prevented full concurrency; after assessing starting points, uplift for prior offending, generous global guilty plea discount and a totality reduction, the High Court found the resulting sentence of three years and nine months was within the permissible range and not manifestly excessive.