25 Mar 2022
L (CA326/2018) v R [2022] NZCA 81
- Citation
- [2022] NZCA 81
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Application to withdraw the notice of abandonment was declined because the applicant made a deliberate and informed abandonment, no exceptional circumstances justified setting it aside, the MPI was lawfully imposed only on the 15-year determinate sentence, s 84(4) requires aggregation of non-parole periods giving a lawful total of 10 years 4 months, and s 86(4) limits do not apply to statutory non-parole periods for sentences of two years or less.