Where co-offenders are sentenced by the same judge at or close to the same time, the applicant bears a heavy burden to demonstrate parity error. Offending while serving a sentence of home detention is a serious aggravating factor that can justify significant sentencing disparity between co-offenders. Comparisons of total effective sentences between co-offenders who operated in different roles within the same criminal enterprise are of limited utility.
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