19 Dec 2016
GERRARD v POLICE [2016] NZHC 3130
- Citation
- [2016] NZHC 3130
- Court
- High Court
In the particular circumstances the sentencing Judge erred by failing to give proper weight to the appellant's entitlement to mandatory release after serving one-half of the short prison sentence when substituting home detention under s 80K(6); the appropriate remedy was to vary the substituted home detention from eight months to five months.