A contention that a sentencing judge failed to give sufficient weight to a feature of the appellant's situation, such as prospects of rehabilitation, is not a basis for appellate interference if the sentence is otherwise within the available range or discretion. Abbreviated sentencing remarks do not constitute error where the relevant considerations were either expressly referred to or readily apparent from the materials before the judge. The question whether a demonstrable failure to give appropriate weight to a material consideration can ever amount to error in the suspension context was expressly left open by [name withheld]
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