A sentencing court must consider whether to discount a sentence for assistance provided to interstate authorities under s 23 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW), but where defence counsel accepts at the sentencing hearing that the discount has already been incorporated in the interstate sentence, no error is demonstrated by the failure to provide a further discount. Sentencing judges must accurately account for all periods of pre-sentence custody.
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