13 Mar 2020
WOOD-OLSEN v NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2020] NZHC 510
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 510
- Court
- High Court
Court accepted most District Court starting points were within range but found the 12-month starting point for non-mail theft excessive and reduced it to nine months; rejected credit for asserted methamphetamine addiction absent causal evidence; applied totality principle to reduce aggregated starting point and, applying same uplifts and discounts as trial Judge, reduced end sentence from 3 years 2 months to 2 years 11 months imprisonment while upholding reparation orders and concurrent sentencing on remaining charges.