The utilitarian discount for a guilty plea must be applied to each individual sentence, not merely to the aggregate sentence. Where the reverse-engineered starting point of an individual sentence exceeds the statutory maximum, this constitutes sentencing error even if the overall aggregate sentence is appropriate. However, the Court may re-sentence on individual counts while maintaining the same total effective sentence where no lesser overall sentence is warranted.
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