A sentencing judge's failure to expressly mention a guilty plea in remarks on sentence constitutes error under Thomson & Houlton, but the appeal will be dismissed where the sentence imposed is within the appropriate range and the low sentence demonstrates the plea must have been taken into account. Judicial Commission statistics do not establish the appropriate sentencing range for a particular offence; they merely reflect outcomes across a wide variety of circumstances.
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