A 25% discount for a guilty plea is not warranted where the plea was entered late in proceedings as part of plea negotiations and the offender withheld the plea as a bargaining tool; approximately 15% is appropriate where the offender made early admissions to police but delayed the formal plea. Wholly concurrent sentences are not justified where offences involve separate criminality on different days against different victims. A sentencing judge who finds an offence within the mid-range of objective seriousness must explain any departure from the standard non-parole period.
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