Ciara appeared at Court for a client faced with a new charge of strangulation and other violence-related charges.
The client, ZA was already on bail for violent charges and the Court was reluctant to re-admit the client to bail.
Ciara argued that due to the nature of the evidence presented by the Police and the client’s personal circumstances (including that he has full-time work), he should be readmitted to bail on more restrictive conditions.
The Court agreed and ZA was readmitted to bail.
Auckland Construction and oil industry professionals are among those accused of smuggling more than 500kg of methamphetamine into the country hidden in steel beams..
At Auckland District Court, Matt Goodwin made a successful application for bail for his client. Read full article here.
“Ten people are now on trial in the High Court at Hamilton all charged with his murder, and some are facing varying levels of assault and obstructing justice charges, after they allegedly turned up with various weapons..”
Ciara Chester-Cronin is junior counsel acting for one of the accused.
“… Matthew Goodwin spoke of his client’s journey since his second arrest, labelling it “transformational…
Former builder faced Judge Peter Hobbs for sentencing in the Wellington District Court, hoping for the home detention sentence his lawyer fervently argued for. He wasn’t granted home detention – but did receive a 70 per cent discount off his prison sentence.” Read full article here.
“The man accused of gunning down Mongrel Mob boss Daniel Eliu outside a South Auckland church can now be named… his lawyer Matthew Goodwin had sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. But when his case was called at the Auckland High Court on Wednesday, Justice Matthew Downs confirmed name suppression had lapsed.” Read full article here.
A former Auckland drug runner who served as a minion in one of New Zealand’s largest ever syndicates has been sentenced to a shade under a decade in prison. Matt Goodwin, said his client had been seduced into the sprawling and sophisticated syndicate amid financial difficulties, cultural pressure and personal tragedy with the death of his grandfather, his “mainstay of support”. Read full article here.