A plea of guilty entered on arraignment in the District Court, without additional utilitarian value from complexity or time saved, does not justify a discount of 20%; approximately 17.5% is appropriate. A sentencing judge's characterisation of an offence as merely 'below mid-range' without further specificity fails to comply with the requirement to indicate where the offence falls relative to the mid-point of objective seriousness. Those who assist in the drug trade by warehousing drugs must expect heavy sentences even where their role is not that of a principal.
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