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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-789/
- Published: 2023-07-24T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-24T09:00:56.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

> Kiri Allan has resigned as Justice Minister, after being taken into police custody on Sunday night.  
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> In a statement, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed she was charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest.  
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> [Allan](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300927977/kiri-allan-to-return-on-monday-offers-to-apologise-in-person-to-anyone-who-wants-to-talk-to-me-individually?ref=goodoil.news) resigned as a minister in the early hours of Monday. She was released from police custody at 1am, after being involved in a car crash about 9pm on Sunday.  
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> Hipkins said Allan also blew over the legal limit in a police breath test after the crash, but at a level only considered to be an infringement offence.  
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> *Stuff*

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