8 Mar 2023
CHYASE POSTLETHWAITE v R [2023] NZCA 49
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 49
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Leave to extend time was granted and the appeal allowed because the s 27 report disclosed a causative contribution from family violence and cultural disconnection to the appellant's pathway to offending; the sentencing judge should have given further recognition of those factors and an additional nine month discount was warranted, reducing the sentence from 11 years 9 months to 11 years imprisonment.
- S 27 sentencing act cultural reports
- Causative contribution
- Sentence discounting
- Extension of time
- Sexual violation/rape