A head sentence of 15 years imprisonment for manslaughter involving arming with a knife in a drunken rage, provoking a confrontation, and inflicting a single fatal stab wound was at the high end but within the permissible range. An unaccepted offer to plead guilty to manslaughter made very late and on a factual basis (accidental death) that was rejected at trial does not warrant sentencing credit.
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