A sentencing judge who specifies a discount percentage for a guilty plea and states that the discount has been applied is not required to also specify the undiscounted starting point for individual or overall sentences. The absence of a neat mathematical starting point does not demonstrate that the discount was not applied. For Commonwealth social security fraud involving approximately $106,000 obtained over six years using four false identities, an aggregate effective sentence of 4 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 2 years 6 months was within range.
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