Bare JIRS statistics showing a sentence at the higher end of the recorded range do not of themselves establish manifest excess, particularly where the statistics do not account for Form 1 offences or the sentencing judge's approach to concurrence and accumulation. Where the same judge sentences co-offenders simultaneously with express regard to parity, the threshold for appellate intervention remains 'gross, marked or glaring' disparity.
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