A Crown appeal asserting manifest inadequacy of sentence will face significant difficulty where the Crown declines to rely on comparable sentencing decisions and characterises the case as unique. Three comparable decisions are inadequate to establish a sentencing pattern. In the absence of a pattern of sentencing for a federal offence, sentences for equivalent State offences may provide guidance.
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