A sentencing court is not obliged to impose a Community Correction Order merely because an offender has been assessed as suitable for one; the seriousness of the offending may justify a sentence of imprisonment exceeding the 2-year threshold that would permit a combined imprisonment/CCO order. The mitigating effect of an offender's youth diminishes as the offender's age increases and as the seriousness of the criminality increases.
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