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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-973/
- Published: 2024-05-22T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-22T03:55:07.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Kiri Allan has been convicted for refusing to accompany police after crashing a car while over the drink-driving limit.  
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> The disgraced former Justice Minister pleaded guilty this morning to the charge. She had earlier admitted a charge of careless driving.  
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> Allan was due to go on trial in the Wellington District Court this morning [for an incident in which she crashed into a parked car while over the legal alcohol limit, then refused to go with police.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/justice-minister-kiri-allans-arrest-and-resignation-photo-shows-crash-on-evans-bay-parade-wellington/PZLIGJ763VEMRODL44SKEFMQVU/?ref=goodoil.news) She ended up being arrested and taken to the police cells after the incident in July.  
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> But having pleaded guilty at the last minute, she was convicted and sentenced to a fine of $300, and ordered to pay $5296 reparation. She had unsuccessfully applied for a discharge without conviction for the refusing to accompany charge.  
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> Allan, [who resigned her portfolios and left politics after the incident,](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/justice-minister-kiri-allans-arrest-and-resignation-photo-shows-crash-on-evans-bay-parade-wellington/PZLIGJ763VEMRODL44SKEFMQVU/?ref=goodoil.news) had elected a judge-alone trial, earlier telling the *Herald* she wanted to test an apparent grey area in the law about the right to consult a lawyer.  
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> This morning, Allan maintained her legal advice suggested there was a case to be argued.  
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> “The last year has been challenging and is a chapter I am wanting closed,” she told the *Herald*.  
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> “This case is a bookend to that and while the legal advice I received made it clear there was a case to be argued, I’m focused on the future, my whanau and concentrating on what’s important.”  
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> NZ Herald

[Read more here](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiri-allan-crash-former-justice-minister-pleads-guilty-on-morning-of-trial/KRTS72XWXRCUDEWS7PPEWSLABA/?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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