A sentencing judge may not treat the mitigatory effect of a plea of guilty as 'outweighed' or 'cancelled out' by aggravating factors; the question is what weight should be given to the plea in the circumstances, not whether that weight is negated by other considerations. The apparent credibility of a co-accused's video-recorded police interview attributing a greater role to the other accused does not usually require separate trials, particularly in joint enterprise cases where one accused claims coercion.
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