Where a sentencing judge's determination of the size of an adjustment to the statutory ratio for special circumstances is founded on the erroneous belief that parole conditions can be imposed (on a sentence exceeding 3 years), the adjustment is made on wrong principle and is susceptible to appellate correction. A court will decline to intervene on parity grounds where the co-offender's sentence is unjustifiably lenient and reducing the applicant's sentence would produce a result inappropriate to the objective criminality.
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