13 Aug 2021
R v PALMER EDWARD MARSTERS [2021] NZHC 2117
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 2117
- Court
- High Court
The Court found multiple aggravating features (use of weapon, offending while on bail, victim vulnerability, extent of harm) but concluded the facts did not satisfy the high threshold in s104(1)(e) for brutality/cruelty/depravity or callousness; the defendant was entitled to the maximum guilty plea discount of two years and a modest six-month mitigation for personal/cultural/mental health factors was appropriate, resulting in a final MPI of 12 years on the murder conviction; other sentences imposed concurrently and reports to Corrections ordered to assist rehabilitation.