9 Mar 2018
R v JOSHUA MASON KITE [2018] NZHC 409
- Citation
- [2018] NZHC 409
- Court
- High Court
Court treated Auckland drug offending and Whangarei violent offending as different in kind and sentenced cumulatively. Applied R v Fatu banding for methamphetamine: starting point 5 years reduced to 4 years after 20% guilty plea discount. Adopted an 8-year starting point for using a firearm against a constable, uplifted for related offending to an effective determinate sentence of 7 years 6 months on the firearm charge, allowed personal uplifts and mitigations (including 14 months credit for time on recall and 20% guilty plea discount overall), rejected preventive detention as unnecessary, an…