17 Nov 2022
STAIGER v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2022] NZHC 3012
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 3012
- Court
- High Court
The appeal was allowed in part because the District Court erred by not accounting for the 4.75 hours of community work already completed when imposing a substitute sentence under s68(4); the substituted sentence was amended to 95.25 hours community work. Otherwise there was no material error: the 100-hour substitute sentence was within the available range, the Judge had considered the reports and tailored concurrent community-based interventions, and declining the s94 application was within discretion given the appellant's failure to complete prior community work.