21 Oct 2021
STACY PAORA v R [2021] NZCA 559
- Citation
- [2021] NZCA 559
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held the 17-year starting point was within range given the 2.691kg quantity and appellant's leading role; appellant was entitled to increased guilty plea credit to 25% because willingness to plead was demonstrated by October 2018; EM bail credit was assessed evaluatively and fixed at a 10-month allowance (70% of the initial 14 months of highly restrictive EM bail; no credit for the later period during which the appellant breached bail); applying Moses methodology and these adjustments produced a substituted sentence of nine years and ten months imprisonment with an MPI of four years…