Where co-offenders receive different discounts for guilty pleas and no reasons are provided by the sentencing judge for the difference, and no evident justification exists, the disparity may give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance warranting appellate intervention. The parity principle applies not only to starting points but also to the discounts applied for guilty pleas.
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