A sentence of nine years imprisonment with a four-year parole eligibility period is within the appropriate range for a single count of armed robbery involving a machete, pre-planning, and a vulnerable complainant, committed by an offender with thirteen prior armed robbery convictions who was at large from interstate parole. When sentencing an offender with unserved interstate sentences, the court is not required to subtract the full unserved period; 'fairly minimal weight' may be given to the unserved interstate sentence where the offender absconded from parole and is a violent recidivist.
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