An appellate court may receive evidence of events occurring after sentencing to show the true significance of facts in existence at the time of sentence, including deterioration in the offender's medical condition and the diagnosis of serious illness in a family member. Where imprisonment will have a gravely adverse effect on the offender's health or where the offender's ill health makes imprisonment a greater burden, this may justify suspension of the sentence.
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