The parity principle does not apply merely because two offenders are part of the same drug distribution network; they must be participants in a common criminal enterprise. Being charged with the same offences for the same type of drugs in similar quantities does not make offenders co-offenders for parity purposes where they operated at different levels of the network. Judicial Commission sentencing statistics offer no guidance about the propriety of an aggregate sentence.
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