When sentencing an elderly offender with serious ill-health and reduced life expectancy for multiple offences, a sentencing judge must consider what degree of accumulation is appropriate rather than moving directly from a finding that full accumulation would be crushing to ordering complete concurrency. The non-parole period the offender would serve must be considered relative to the offender's predicted life expectancy. Mercy is a permissible basis for reducing sentence length, but it does not justify a sentence that fails to reflect the totality of the offending.
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