9 May 2019
NOBLE v R [2019] NZHC 1011
- Citation
- [2019] NZHC 1011
- Court
- High Court
The appellant failed to establish any exceptional circumstances or tenable defence that would justify vacating guilty pleas: he was represented when pleading guilty, produced no evidence of duress or material mistake, advanced legally untenable sovereignty/jurisdiction arguments, and faced strong prosecution evidence; therefore no miscarriage of justice would occur and the District Court judge did not err in declining to vacate the pleas, so leave to appeal is refused and the appeal dismissed.