For aggravated armed robbery in WA, the customary sentencing range is 4 to 6 years' imprisonment before mitigating or aggravating factors, and immediate imprisonment is the norm with non-immediate custodial dispositions being exceptional. Section 9AA of the Sentencing Act 1995 (WA) has no application to a count on which the offender was convicted after trial, even where the offender pleaded guilty to a related count for which no sentence was imposed under s 11. A guilty plea on a factually overlapping count may be treated as a mitigating factor on the trial count as part of the intuitive synthesis, but should not be expressed as a specific percentage discount.
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