POLICE v VL ? Successful application for discharge without conviction for a charge of burglary of commercial premises with some damage done to building and $10,000 worth of items taken (but recovered). Impact on future career and travel and efforts to make amends and reparation led court to grant the application for a discharge without…
My client was a 15 year old (one of the youngest in New Zealand to face a murder charge) who stabbed his friend in the back in a jealous moment of anger. The jury found him not guilty of the murder and a manslaughter conviction was entered.