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Falloon targets recidivist crims BY COLIN WILLISCROFT
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Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon has introduced a Private Member’s Bill aimed at ensuring people who commit a number of serious offences, but only serve prison time for one, don’t get off so lightly. If passed into law the bill, entered into a parliamentary ballot yesterday, will limit the availability of concurrent sentencing. Concurrent sentences are given for multiple offences that can be served col-
lectively (at the same time), while cumulative sentences, also for more than one offence, accumulate and any prison terms must be served successively. Falloon, who is on the Justice Select Committee, said his Sentencing (Restriction of Concurrent Sentencing) Amendment Bill will mean serious, recidivist criminals do not receive a discount on sentences for multiple crimes. “Concurrent sentencing is a logical option for judges to consider when sentencing offenders who have committed a
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number of related crimes in a short space of time, or as part of a single act by an offender. “However, the Sentencing Act allows for concurrent sentencing even when the offending spans a number of separate and unrelated incidents, and in the case of offending while on bail, potentially weeks or months after the initial offence.”
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