A sentencing judge is not required to quantify or nominate a specific reduction from the sentence otherwise appropriate solely on account of an offender's mental illness; such quantification is contrary to the instinctive synthesis approach. For mental illness to be relevant to sentencing, it need not be the cause or even a cause of the offending. Fresh psychiatric evidence on appeal that merely asserts mental illness was a 'biological contributing factor' without specifying the extent of the contribution is insufficient to meet the Goodwin test for reception.
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