Tangi Utikere is considering cases of possible wrongful conviction on the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Palmerston North’s deputy mayor is getting down to business in his new role at a government agency considering possible wrongful convictions. Tangi Utikere is one of seven appointments to the Criminal Cases Review Commission that began operating in July. The commission considers applications from people who have exhausted all their avenues of appeal but consider themselves wrongfully convicted of a crime. Coming from a teaching background, Utikere is also a judicial justice of the peace, managing court panels in Palmerston North, Levin and Dannevirke, and a visiting justice, who runs prison disciplinary hearings.

Source: Stuff July 24, 2020 02:48 UTC