1 Jul 2016
MITCHELL v R [2016] NZCA 299
- Citation
- [2016] NZCA 299
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held that (1) receipt of unopened envelopes addressed and recognisable as from the appellant constitutes "contact by correspondence" as a matter of law where sender is identifiable; (2) the trial directions on inferences were adequate; (3) placing mail into the prison mail system was a sufficiently proximate act to constitute attempts to breach the protection order; (4) the attempted threatening to kill conviction was sustainable and not duplicitous; and (5) the District Court's global sentence was manifestly excessive due to an excessive starting point and double counting, warranti…