20 Aug 2020
STANDING v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2020] NZHC 2111
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 2111
- Court
- High Court
Leave to bring the appeal out of time was granted; the Court found aspects of the District Court's cumulative starting points excessive and that the sentencing Judge had not recorded a totality analysis so the High Court re-evaluated starting points and applied totality. The Court substituted a reduced aggregate sentence totalling 12 months' imprisonment allocated across the offences (drugs, theft re-sentencing, breach of supervision, failure to appear), and held that an uplift for old historical convictions was not warranted.