Where an offender is convicted of separate offences against separate victims arising from the same incident, the sentencing judge must consider partial accumulation of sentences; fully concurrent sentences will generally fail to reflect the totality of criminality. An appellate court will not reduce sentences that are already unduly lenient, even where sentencing errors are identified. Different findings of special circumstances between co-offenders do not of themselves give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance.
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