10 Mar 2022
GOATLEY v R [2022] NZHC 414
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 414
- Court
- High Court
The High Court held the appellant's offending was moderately serious despite significant personal mitigation and that the adverse consequences of conviction were not out of all proportion to that gravity, so a discharge without conviction was refused; however the sentencing combination imposed by the District Court was manifestly excessive and the appeal against sentence was allowed in part by quashing community detention and reducing supervision from nine to six months while leaving 275 hours' community work and $2,000 emotional harm reparation in place.