Where a sentencing judge states a discount range for the utilitarian value of a guilty plea, the judge must first identify notional sentences and then reduce those sentences by a specific percentage or period so that the discount can be clearly seen to have been allowed. Failure to do so constitutes appealable error. Taking into account matters on a Form 1 must result in a longer sentence than would have been imposed for the primary offence alone, and the increase should not be merely slight where the Form 1 offences are serious in their own right.
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