Where co-offenders of equal culpability are sentenced by different judges and the later sentences are significantly more lenient, the earlier-sentenced offenders may have a justifiable sense of grievance warranting appellate intervention, even where the earlier sentences were not themselves manifestly excessive. A sentencing judge dealing with co-offenders sentenced by another judge must have regard to those earlier sentences but should not purport to sit in appellate review of the earlier judge's approach.
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