For offences of recklessly causing serious injury involving unprovoked group violence by youthful offenders with prior relevant findings of guilt, total effective sentences of 30 months' imprisonment with 12-month non-parole periods are within range. The denial of summary jurisdiction due to prosecution delay in accepting guilty pleas does not constitute a mitigating factor where the prejudice is speculative. A s 6AAA declaration cannot be relied upon to support a manifest excess ground.
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