6 Jul 2018
HINES v R [2018] NZCA 242
- Citation
- [2018] NZCA 242
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Conviction appeal dismissed because no legal error in trial judge's directions on circumstantial evidence, adequacy of prejudice warnings, or admissibility of DSS McNaughton's gang leadership evidence; sentence appeal allowed because part of the storage unit uplift double counted material already reflected in the manufacture sentence (requiring an 18-month reduction for parity) and because the appellant's severe end-stage renal failure and limited life expectancy meant an MPI was not warranted under the mercy principle (Sentencing Act s8(h)); overall sentence substituted to 17 years and MPI q…