18 Jun 2018
LEOTA v R [2018] NZCA 200
- Citation
- [2018] NZCA 200
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Judge did not err in imposing preventive detention because the offender's escalating, unpredictable and severe pattern of violence posed a significant ongoing risk to the community; the health assessors' reports did not clearly mandate a determinate sentence and an ESO would not provide equivalent protection, so preventive detention with an MPIP of eight years eight months was justified.