Rodrigo v New Zealand Police

Criminal law – sentence 

Rodrigo v New Zealand Police – [2014] NZCA 68 – White, MacKenzie and Mallon JJ – 13 March 2014

Supply of Class B drug Ritalin – guilty plea - appeal against home detention – offender was university student with undiagnosed ADHD – link between lack of treatment and offending established by medical report – co-offender discharged without conviction – circumstances of offending and offenders materially similar – whether consequences of conviction out of all proportion to gravity of offending. 

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