Where a co-offender has received a lenient sentence from a different judge, the parity principle requires the sentencing judge to devote adequate attention to explaining why the sentences imposed on other co-offenders are justified in light of that sentence. A sentencing judge's failure to make conspicuous the reasons for disparate sentences is a significant deficiency. The sentencing ranges for cultivation simpliciter and cultivation of a commercial quantity of cannabis may overlap at the higher and lower ends respectively.
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