Differences in position within a drug trafficking hierarchy are a legitimate basis for significant disparity in sentences between co-offenders, and a sentencing judge's exercise of leniency toward one co-offender (such as backdating a sentence to account for totality) does not of itself give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance in another co-offender who occupied a higher position in the organisation.
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