A sentencing judge must take all relevant mitigating factors into account in fixing the head sentence, not merely in fixing the non-parole period. The head sentence must represent the instinctive synthesis of all relevant factors including circumstances of both the crime and the offender. Confining mitigating factors to the non-parole period alone constitutes specific sentencing error warranting appellate intervention.
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