11 May 2023
PURUCKER v HUEBLER [2023] NZHC 1134
- Citation
- [2023] NZHC 1134
- Court
- High Court
The s 47(2) application was dismissed because the applicant failed to establish exceptional circumstances: she entered guilty pleas and accepted a sentence indication, a District Court judge refused to vacate the pleas after hearing the issues now relied on, no new evidence was produced that undermined the convictions or the Crown forensic accounting, and permitting relitigation would offend finality and risk abuse of process; therefore the convictions are conclusive proof that the first defendant committed the offences totalling $700,000, while the defendant may contest only the sums not cov…