A sentencing judge who arrives at a global sentence and imposes it uniformly on each count, rather than first determining an appropriate sentence for each individual count before considering concurrency and accumulation, commits an error that causes the sentencing discretion to wholly miscarry. Where the global figure equals the statutory maximum for some counts, the error is compounded where mitigating factors have been acknowledged.
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