9 Dec 2020
HESSELS v POLICE [2020] NZHC 3019
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 3019
- Court
- High Court
Having considered the aggravating features (premeditation, persistence, offending on bail) and mitigating features (early plea, remorse, treatment for depression with some causal nexus), the High Court held the District Court did not err in finding the consequences of conviction were not out of all proportion to the gravity of the offending and that the reduced starting point and conversion to a community-based sentence produced a sentence that was not manifestly excessive; accordingly the appeal was dismissed.