Practitioners should note that a Crown appeal against sentence will not succeed merely because the appellate court might have imposed a heavier sentence; the sentence must be shown to be manifestly inadequate, and where a sentencing judge has accepted duress, limited intellectual capacity, and other subjective factors, a sentence below the midrange of objective seriousness for large commercial drug supply offences may be within the proper discretionary range even for quantities significantly exceeding the large commercial threshold.
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