9 Dec 2020
MURPHY v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2020] NZHC 3261
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 3261
- Court
- High Court
The High Court found the District Court erred by imposing an excessive starting point for the offering to supply charges, failing to discount for proven addiction and s 27 personal factors, and failing to apply the totality principle; the appropriate adjusted sentences were substituted resulting in an aggregate term of 16 months' imprisonment and the appeal was allowed in part.