A submission that a sentencing judge gave inadequate weight to a mitigating factor does not, standing alone, enliven the appellate court's authority to intervene; it must be framed as manifest excess or inadequacy. A complaint about refusal to suspend a sentence is subject to the same appellate test as a complaint about sentence length — the question is whether the decision fell outside the range of permissible dispositions.
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