When applying the R v Henry guideline range of 4-5 years for armed robbery, the sentencing judge must give adequate weight to an early guilty plea offered at the first available opportunity, as the guideline range assumed a late plea of limited utilitarian value. Home invasion is an aggravating circumstance that may justify a sentence at the top of or slightly above the guideline range. Effective concurrency of a co-offender's sentence with sentences for unrelated offences may give rise to a parity grievance.
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