A CCO standing alone will be inadequate for serious, protracted theft involving breach of trust, theft from an employer and friend, and severe financial harm to victims, notwithstanding significant mitigating circumstances including ill health, no prior criminal history, partial restitution and delay. Boulton does not offer a 'Get Out of Jail Free' card where imprisonment is necessary to satisfy just punishment, denunciation and general deterrence. A sentencing judge's misunderstanding of the punitive nature of a CCO expressed during the plea hearing will not vitiate the sentence if the sentencing remarks demonstrate the correct basis for the decision.
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