A mistaken understanding by a co-offender's sentencing judge of the degree of concurrency in the applicant's sentence does not, of itself, establish a justifiable sense of grievance where the significant differences in subjective circumstances between the co-offenders independently justify the disparity. The ultimate question remains whether the difference in sentence objectively gives rise to a justifiable sense of grievance.
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