An appellate court will not interfere with a sentencing judge's assessment of the appropriate discount for assistance to authorities merely because the appellate court would have exercised the discretion differently. The applicant's purported mathematical analysis of the breakdown of a combined discount for plea and assistance does not establish error where the sentencing judge did not specify separate discounts for each component. The quantity, purity and value of drugs remain highly relevant to objective seriousness even where the offender's role was relatively minor, particularly where the offender was aware of the scale of the operation and was to receive an extraordinary financial reward.
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