20 Dec 2017
EDWARDSON v R [2017] NZCA 618
- Citation
- [2017] NZCA 618
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held the Crown's case — intercepted communications, Contac-NT supply, forensic residue and circumstantial links to the storage unit — provided a sufficient evidential foundation for reasonable juries to convict; trial judge's directions and s 147 rulings were correct; sentencing judge was entitled under s 24 and established authorities to infer from the totality that at least one kilogram of methamphetamine was manufactured and to fix starting points accordingly; some sentence adjustments were required to avoid double counting and to moderate uplifts for prior record, and limited mi…