A delay of 2½ years in filing a notice of appeal against sentence, without proper explanation, requires the appellant to demonstrate miscarriage of justice to obtain an extension of time. In sentencing for conspiracy to possess drugs, the sentencing judge is entitled to have regard to the full quantity of drugs the subject of the conspiracy, not merely the quantity the individual conspirator expected to receive. Reference to an offender's membership of an outlaw motorcycle gang in sentencing remarks is permissible as part of the narrative where it played no operative part in the sentencing process.
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