23 Feb 2018
R v LAVRENT [2018] NZHC 229
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 229
- Court
- High Court
Court set a 3 year starting point for the Greenstone importations given defendant's limited facilitation role, added a five month uplift for offending committed while on bail, and incorporated the Operation Ark representative selling charge by applying a ten month uplift to reach a combined starting point of four years three months. After mitigation discounts (eight months for remorse, character and rehabilitation; 25% for guilty plea) the sentence reduced to two years eight months. Applying totality to avoid a wholly disproportionate aggregate with the existing eight years six months sentenc…