A sentence of two years and six months imprisonment (suspended after six months actual custody) for aggravated robbery committed by a first offender using a replica firearm, motivated by desperation rather than drug addiction, is within the range of sentences for the ACT. Crown appeals against sentence must demonstrate manifest inadequacy with clarity and cannot succeed merely by showing the appellate court would have imposed a different sentence.
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