Where co-offenders in a drug supply enterprise are sentenced by different judges, marked disparity in starting points may give rise to a legitimate sense of grievance even where the co-offender has significantly different subjective circumstances (here, age 79 and health issues). The absence of express reference to remorse or rehabilitation in ex tempore sentencing remarks for multiple co-offenders does not, without more, demonstrate error.
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