He will be sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court on Feb. 7. During the hearing, prosecutors are expected to argue that he should serve time behind bars.
White’s barrister has already argued a jail sentence was not inevitable for the nature of his offending.
At the time of the incident, Nowland was holding a knife and was uncompliant with requests from staff, a court was told during a trial in November.
After being tasered by White, she fell to the ground and fractured her skull, dying in hospital a week later.
Despite White arguing he felt the great-grandmother posed a threat at the time, a jury unanimously found him guilty of manslaughter.
He was sacked from the force almost a week after the verdict, but he has since launched legal proceedings to challenge that decision.
Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison refused a motion in December to take White into custody, finding it possible that he would not ultimately see the inside of a jail cell.
Justice Harrison noted at the time he did not want to “cause distress or frustration” to those who see nothing other than a sentence of full-time imprisonment appropriate for White.
“I should not want to give unwarranted hope to White that he will avoid a sentence of full-time imprisonment,” he said at the time.
“I am simply not comfortable making ... a decision as a bail authority with respect to White based on a conclusion that he will be sentenced to imprisonment to be served by full-time detention.”
Nowland’s family said at the time they were struggling to come to terms with the decision to allow White’s bail to continue despite his conviction.
Police and paramedics were called to Nowland’s nursing home after the great-grandmother grabbed two steak knives from a kitchen and raised them against residents and staff before throwing one at a carer.
White pulled the Taser’s trigger after three minutes of negotiations to get her to put down the remaining knife.
He was heard in video footage played at his trial saying “Nah, bugger it” before shooting Nowland in the torso.
