7 Nov 2017
TANOA v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2017] NZHC 2722
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 2722
- Court
- High Court
The appeal was allowed because the District Court sentence of nine months imprisonment was excessive in the circumstances and the District Court should have considered home detention; the High Court quashed the custodial sentence and substituted a three month home detention sentence (four months starting point reduced to three months to account for two months custody served) and declined to remit the matter to the District Court in relation to a fresh charge not yet entered; special post-detention conditions under s 80P(2)(c) and (d) were imposed for six months after the end of the sentence t…