Where a sentencing court purports to enumerate the sentencing options it has considered and fails to mention suspended imprisonment before imposing immediate imprisonment, a logical inference arises that the option was not considered, constituting an identifiable error warranting appellate intervention. An offender against whom no convictions are alleged since a particular date must be treated as not having offended since that time, even where the offender resided in another jurisdiction for part of the intervening period and records from that jurisdiction were not obtained.
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