The rehabilitation of youthful first offenders with excellent prospects remains a particularly strong sentencing consideration for offences involving violence, even after the 1997 amendments to s 9 of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld), and a wholly suspended sentence for armed robbery in company is not necessarily manifestly inadequate where the sentencing judge has properly balanced all relevant considerations. Where the sentencing judge finds no appreciable risk of further offences, the considerations in s 9(4) are of relatively less importance. It is an unusual course to send an offender who is at large to prison for a relatively short period on an Attorney-General's appeal.
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