There is no requirement for concurrent sentences for offences of a similar nature not widely separated by time. A sentencing judge's decision to impose cumulative rather than partially concurrent sentences for drug trafficking offences committed on separate occasions is within the sentencing discretion and does not demonstrate error merely because the offences arose from the same course of conduct. The dissent provides a useful analysis of how to identify when a sentencing judge has impermissibly punished for uncharged conduct.
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