24 Aug 2018
TAITAPANUI v R [2018] NZCA 300
- Citation
- [2018] NZCA 300
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Leave to file out of time granted; conviction appeal dismissed because counsel's failure to advise about mandatory registration, while unfortunate, did not produce the rare exceptional circumstances or establish a miscarriage of justice given the appellant's appreciation of the charge, strength of the Crown case, other reasons for pleading guilty and lack of evidential detail tying Oranga Tamariki actions uniquely to registration; sentence appeal dismissed because imprisonment was a lawful and appropriate outcome in all the circumstances (prior record, recall, nature of offending), sentence e…