The case confirms that the special consideration ordinarily given to youthful offenders in sentencing diminishes significantly where the offender has an extensive criminal history of violence and has repeatedly failed to respond to lenient dispositions. In such cases, denunciation, punishment and specific deterrence become paramount, and rehabilitation prospects may properly be regarded as conjectural.
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