A sentencing judge who states the total effective sentence before identifying individual sentences does not necessarily breach the Pearce methodology, provided the remarks and sentence structure demonstrate that each offence was considered separately and that questions of concurrence, accumulation and totality were addressed. Judicial Commission statistics are a 'blunt instrument' and do not, without more, demonstrate that a sentence is outside the range of the sentencing discretion.
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