The parity principle does not apply between a street-level drug supplier and the person from whom they sourced the drugs; they are not co-offenders. The observations in Mitchell v R [2008] NSWCCA 192 suggesting the parity principle could apply by analogy to non-co-offenders who committed related offences are confined to the facts of that case. A sentence falling within the top percentiles of Judicial Commission statistics is not thereby established as outside the available range.
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