Judicial Commission sentencing statistics cannot be relied upon completely to define the appropriate sentencing range, particularly where those statistics appear entirely out of line with the maximum sentence provided by the legislature for the individual crimes. A total effective sentence of seven and a half years with a five-year non-parole period for three armed robberies of vulnerable victims using a tomahawk, committed over 11 days by a 19-year-old offender, is within the available discretionary range.
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