A sentencing judge who declines to discount an otherwise appropriate cumulative sentence under the totality principle, on the basis that the pre-existing sentence was already discounted in anticipation of a more severe cumulative sentence that was later set aside on appeal, does not misapply the totality principle. An offender's criminal history of violent offences may support a serious violent offence declaration.
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