Where a young offender commits a crime of violence of considerable gravity, has an extensive criminal history, and continues to commit offences of considerable violence, rehabilitation does not have the force it would normally have when sentencing a juvenile, and greater emphasis may properly be given to deterrence and retribution. A sentencing judge is not obliged to apply the totality principle when sentencing for a single offence merely because the offender is serving other sentences, and may properly decline to backdate a sentence where doing so would nullify the effect of prior sentences.
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