Where a sentencing judge misreads an offender's criminal antecedents and uses the inflated record to deny leniency, this constitutes sentencing error warranting appellate intervention. A medical condition that makes imprisonment significantly harsher for an offender (here, severe bowel incontinence) must be adequately reflected in the sentence, even where the condition is not life-threatening or life-shortening.
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