The Fernando principles for sentencing Aboriginal offenders are not limited to Aborigines who live in isolated communities. Intoxication may mitigate objective criminality where it indicates the offence was impulsive and unplanned and the offender's capacity to exercise judgment was impaired, but is not of itself a mitigating factor.
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