A sentencing judge who has considered all relevant factors including rehabilitation, mental health, staleness of the offence, and hardship to children, but concludes that the objective seriousness of the offence, criminal history, and commission while on conditional liberty warrant full-time imprisonment, does not err merely because the Court of Criminal Appeal might have exercised the discretion differently. Rehabilitation does not take precedence to the exclusion of deterrence, retribution and punishment; all must be balanced in the overall synthesis of the sentence.
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