The two-step sentencing approach for murder (assessing objective gravity first, then subjective mitigation) remains the correct methodology in NSW, and the alternative instinctive synthesis approach is largely semantic and produces the same result. The refusal of special leave in Harris confirms the approach is not erroneous.
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