Where an offender suffers from multiple serious medical conditions and disabilities that will make imprisonment significantly more onerous, the sentencing judge must give some weight to ill health as a mitigating factor; a finding that imprisonment will not impose a 'greater burden' is not open where the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates compromised mobility, chronic pain, and difficulty with daily living. For federal sentencing, Cameron v The Queen applies and there is no obligation to specify a percentage discount for the utilitarian value of a guilty plea.
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