Where an offender is convicted of multiple drug offences arising from a single parcel containing different drugs, the offences constitute one multi-faceted course of criminal conduct. Wholly cumulative sentences are inappropriate because they doubly punish common elements, but wholly concurrent sentences may also be inappropriate as they fail to reflect the total criminality. Partially cumulative sentences are the appropriate structure in such cases.
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