14 Dec 2020
TAFERE v NZ POLICE [2020] NZHC 3303
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 3303
- Court
- High Court
The sentencing Judge erred by indicating leave to apply for home detention for a 30 month imprisonment term because statutory law permits conversion to home detention only for sentences of 24 months or less; the s27 report was admitted as fresh evidence and warranted a further 15% discount for diminished culpability due to trauma and severe addiction, reducing the effective custodial starting point to 24 months which converts to 12 months home detention, and after credit for time served and restrictive bail the appropriate concurrent sentences are three months home detention at the Grace Foun…