A 26-year non-parole period for a premeditated domestic violence murder was held to be merciful, applying the [name withheld] classification framework. Cultural background is not automatically a mitigating factor in sentencing for murder; the onus is on the applicant to identify how it operates as mitigation. Lack of contrition, correctly found, does not constitute error provided it is not treated as an aggravating factor.
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