On a charge of intentionally causing serious injury, the absence of intention to cause injuries of the specific character or magnitude actually sustained is not a mitigating factor; the offender's lack of 'medically qualified prescience' does not avail them. On Director's appeals, double jeopardy requires only an adequate discount for having to stand for sentence twice, not a sentence at or near the bottom of the available range.
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