A sentencing judge is not obliged to precisely quantify the discount for a guilty plea, and expressing the discount as a range (e.g., 'between twenty and twenty-five percent') does not constitute error, particularly where sentencing for a combination of State and Commonwealth offences to which different discounting principles apply. Evidence of remorse under s 21A(3)(i) need not be given orally, but a sentencing judge is entitled to reject a written apology as not constituting a genuine expression of remorse. The offence of unauthorised possession of prohibited weapons is discrete from the offence of dishonest appropriation of the same weapons, because appropriation is complete upon removal while possession continues throughout the period of retention.
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