The Todd/Mill principle requiring a sentencing discount for delay in prosecution does not apply where the delay is attributable to the offender's failure to volunteer guilt rather than to the operation of the criminal justice system. The principle requires that the offender was suffering uncertainty as to his fate during the delay period; an offender who was merely hoping not to be caught does not attract the discount.
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