Where a sentencing judge imposes sentences of different lengths for offences of the same type on the same indictment, the judge must articulate reasons for the differential; failure to do so renders the sentences outside the range reasonably available. A sentence for intentionally causing injury involving carpet burns and neck marks of 2 years' imprisonment is outside range even where not cumulated. Delay of approximately four and a half years between complaint and sentence, during which the offender has not reoffended and has formed a new family, constitutes a limited form of rehabilitation warranting some mitigation.
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