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New Zealand Case Law

Second strike regime
  • 12 Jun 2020

    R v TAKAMORE [2020] NZHC 1328

    Citation
    [2020] NZHC 1328
    Court
    High Court

    Because no suitable home detention address was available and the failure to complete home detention was substantially due to circumstances outside the offender's control, the Court cancelled the home detention and substituted a term of imprisonment reflecting the original sentencing intent while crediting the offender for having completed half of the home detention period; remand time will be accounted for by the Department for release but not by the Court in fixing sentence, yielding a substituted sentence of 15 months' imprisonment plus two weeks cumulative for outstanding community work an…