21 Sept 2017
WILD v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2017] NZCA 420
- Citation
- [2017] NZCA 420
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Leave to bring a second appeal was declined because the application did not satisfy the high statutory test in s223(3): the dispute concerned application of established legal concepts to particular facts and did not raise a matter of general or public importance nor an identifiable risk of miscarriage of justice; additionally, even assuming the search was unlawful, the s30 factors made exclusion of the weapon and cartridges disproportionate so the evidence remains admissible; objectively the officers had reasonable grounds to believe the targeted person was in the vehicle, justifying the s7 w…