A sentencing judge may describe an offence as 'midrange' even where no standard non-parole period applies, provided the judge is assessing the overall 'seriousness of the offence' (taking into account both objective and subjective features) rather than engaging in the distinct exercise of assessing 'objective seriousness' in the standard non-parole period sense. Sentencing statistics remain of limited utility given the vast range of variables not captured in them; the determinative question on a manifest excess challenge is whether the sentence was appropriate for the particular case.
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