Sentences for burglary of residential premises in the ACT are generally within the range of one year to two years and six months imprisonment. A sentencing judge's expression of doubt about remorse may constitute a neutral finding rather than an adverse finding, and such a neutral finding is open where the evidence of remorse is equivocal. Even where error is found in the treatment of remorse, appellate intervention is not warranted unless a different sentence should be imposed.
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