Where a defendant elects not to give evidence on sentence, agreed facts placing the defendant in contact with co-offenders or overseas parties at material times can support adverse inferences beyond reasonable doubt as to the duration and extent of involvement, even where an innocent explanation is theoretically available; practitioners must advise clients that silence on sentence carries real forensic risk when agreed facts are capable of supporting aggravating inferences.
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