When challenging an aggregate sentence as manifestly excessive, it is the aggregate sentence — not individual indicative sentences — that must be shown to be unreasonable or plainly unjust. An error in an indicative sentence does not necessarily vitiate the aggregate sentence; the materiality of any such error must be demonstrated. Judicial Commission sentencing statistics are of extremely limited utility in the context of aggregate sentences.
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