16 Mar 2023
R v ELLIOTT [2023] NZHC 528
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 528
- Court
- High Court
The Court accepted defendant's role was 'lesser' and that severe harassment and threats to family materially motivated his involvement but did not amount to coercion justifying full exculpation; applying Zhang band three the Judge set a methamphetamine starting point of 4 years 6 months, uplifted six months for the GBL offending and three months for participation in an organised criminal group to reach an adjusted starting point of 5 years 3 months, then applied a 15% guilty plea discount and a 10% personal mitigation discount (total 25%) producing a final concurrent sentence of three years a…