The majority held that there is no rule of practice requiring sentencing credit for an unaccepted offer to plead guilty to a lesser offence, particularly where the accused runs an inconsistent defence at trial. White J's dissent, drawing on interstate authority, articulated a principle that an unaccepted offer to plead to a lesser offence matching the verdict should ordinarily be treated as mitigatory. The question of whether an unaccepted offer to plead guilty constitutes 'co-operation' under s 32A(3)(c) of the Sentencing Act was left open.
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