A sentencing judge's failure to expressly refer to a guilty plea discount in remarks on sentence will generally be treated as a failure to take into account a material consideration (House v R error), and the Crown cannot cure the omission by arguing that the mathematics of the sentence imply a discount was applied. Where the same sentencing judge has repeatedly failed to mention guilty plea discounts in prior cases, this reinforces the inference that the plea was not considered.
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