The re-sentencing date for Valencia Skipper has been adjourned to later this month after technical issues arose at her initial re-sentencing in the Napier District Court yesterday.
The 22-year-old mother was jailed earlier this year for causing the death of her daughter, Saphire Te Aroha Skipper-Hira, by crashing a car on the Hawke's Bay Expressway when she had meth in her system.
Last month Skipper successfully appealed her sentence of imprisonment, but the appeal against her conviction was dismissed.
Skipper's lawyer, Madeline Laracy, told the Court of Appeal the charge was more serious than the situation warranted, which had resulted in a sentence that was too harsh.
She argued that while there was methamphetamine in her client's system, it was a small amount and there was no evidence it had directly caused the crash.