31 Jul 2020
R v FINLAYSON [2020] NZHC 1892
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1892
- Court
- High Court
Starting point of 27 months imprisonment (2 years 3 months) appropriate given premeditation, commercial purpose and that the defendant effectively supplied a loaded weapon; apply 3 months discount for previous good character, 5 months for guilty pleas, and 6 months for significant assistance to Crown, reducing to 13 months; home detention would be appropriate but is infeasible due to inadequate GPS signal at address and employment mobility, therefore impose maximum available community detention of six months on each charge with electronically monitored curfew and work exemptions to allow empl…