4 Dec 2020
LYNN v R [2020] NZCA 616
- Citation
- [2020] NZCA 616
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court allowed the appeal, concluding the judge should have given greater tangible credit for the appellant's guilty pleas and admissions that enabled resolution of additional burglaries and saved substantial prosecutorial resources, increased guilty-plea discount to 20%, recalculated individual sentences (including applying proportional discounts to the driving while disqualified charge) and replaced the original cumulative total of seven years five months with a total of six years seven months and 30 days' imprisonment; cumulative sentencing remained permissible but totality must be obse…