Zero striker # 1 - Ranapera Taumata
His three strikes are:
- 1st: aggravated robbery – he was sentenced to 8 months home detention
- 2nd: robbery (which he committed while on prison release conditions) – he was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment.
- 3rd: murdered his girlfriend in 2019 by beating her to death with his bare hands.
But even worse is this new law means he would have even got a first or second strike. As both got sentences of under 24 months, he would not have even got strikes for them. So his murder conviction would be a first strike, not a third strike.
Article posted HERE
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Zero striker #2 - Tauhu David MITAI-NGATAI ~ is a Third Striker. He repeatedly sexually assaults women.
He has over 100 criminal convictions as an adult and is believed to be a gang associate.
His daughter has a protection order against him according to the Judge who sentenced him on his Third Strike.
He has been assessed by probation at a high risk of re-offending and a high risk of causing harm to others.
Under the Government’s proposed re-introduction of Three Strikes 2.0, he will be on a clean slate. His prior strike offences count for nothing, and he is a zero striker.
Just as bad, under the Government’s proposed Three Strikes 2.0, Mr Mitai-Ngatai would not qualify as a Third Striker if he did it all again!
This is because it is proposed that a person would only be a striker if they had been sentenced to more than 24 months imprisonment for all strike offences.
For Mr Mitai-Ngatai’s first strike offence – an indecent assault – he was only sentenced to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment. For his second strike offence – another indecent assault – he was sentenced to 1 year and 1 month imprisonment.
Neither meet the Government’s threshold to be considered a striker AT ALL!
Article posted HERE
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
He has over 100 criminal convictions as an adult and is believed to be a gang associate.
His daughter has a protection order against him according to the Judge who sentenced him on his Third Strike.
He has been assessed by probation at a high risk of re-offending and a high risk of causing harm to others.
Under the Government’s proposed re-introduction of Three Strikes 2.0, he will be on a clean slate. His prior strike offences count for nothing, and he is a zero striker.
Just as bad, under the Government’s proposed Three Strikes 2.0, Mr Mitai-Ngatai would not qualify as a Third Striker if he did it all again!
This is because it is proposed that a person would only be a striker if they had been sentenced to more than 24 months imprisonment for all strike offences.
For Mr Mitai-Ngatai’s first strike offence – an indecent assault – he was only sentenced to 1 year and 3 months imprisonment. For his second strike offence – another indecent assault – he was sentenced to 1 year and 1 month imprisonment.
Neither meet the Government’s threshold to be considered a striker AT ALL!
Article posted HERE
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
2 comments:
Eh man, it's tikanga. A real man always beats some one up. Warrior eh.
So yet another example of promising a policy and effectively neutering it at the implementation stage. When will we see a bit of "what you see is what you get". We are still waiting on English names first so we understand what the heck an entity is or supposed to do for us. How about this Govt making it absolutely clear to the public service and other associated entities that the old order is out and the new is in? The smoke and mirrors approach and gaslighting of us is simply not what we expected of this government - well maybe that is naive given we only have a couple of the partners in this coaition actually doing what they said they would.
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