Self-induced drug intoxication can never be an excuse for criminal conduct and will rarely carry weight as a mitigating factor in sentencing. General deterrence is equally important for aggravated burglary, deprivation of liberty, and assault with intent to rob as it is for armed robbery. The totality principle requires a sentencing judge to take a 'last look' at the aggregate sentence to ensure it is just and appropriate, but a total effective sentence of 7 years and 5 months was upheld for a 14-hour crime spree involving armed robbery, deprivation of liberty, threats to kill, aggravated burglary, assaults, and dangerous driving causing multiple crashes.
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