Where co-offenders are charged with different offences in different jurisdictions but their offending is interconnected and overlapping, the principle of equal justice requires that the sentencing court make adequate allowance for relative parity. However, the parity principle does not generally extend to correcting disparities arising from prosecutorial charging decisions. Where the Crown does not submit that a co-offender's sentence was manifestly inadequate, the court will not make that finding of its own volition to refuse intervention on parity grounds.
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