The sentencing standard of 6-8 years for ordinary armed robbery applies per offence, so multiple armed robbery offences can produce very high aggregate starting points before application of the totality principle. There is no norm as to the proportion of the head sentence that the non-parole period should represent; poor rehabilitation prospects and offending while on parole justify a non-parole period that is a high proportion of the head sentence. The totality principle should be applied as the final step in the sentencing process, after reduction for a guilty plea, though an error in sequence does not necessarily vitiate the ultimate sentence.
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