Where a drug supply offence and a firearms possession offence are separate and distinct acts of criminality but the firearms offence is passive and not connected to the drug enterprise, the principle of totality may require a greater degree of concurrence than might otherwise be imposed. A sentencing judge is not obliged to warn parties before rejecting untested exculpatory hearsay statements made by an offender to a psychiatrist where the offender chose not to give evidence.
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