11 Jun 2020
POLAAPAU v R [2020] NZCA 227
- Citation
- [2020] NZCA 227
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court allowed the appeal, holding the District Court erred by failing to stand back and apply the totality principle after structuring starting points and uplifts, resulting in an excessive combined starting point; the appropriate overall starting point was no more than 11 years, and after applying the 50% combined discount for youth/personal circumstances and guilty pleas the correct sentence is five and a half years' imprisonment.