Where a sentencing judge indicates a specific utilitarian discount for a guilty plea but imposes the same head sentence as co-offenders of equivalent criminality who were convicted after trial, the arithmetical anomaly may demonstrate that the discount was not in fact applied, warranting appellate intervention. Obvious miscalculations in sentencing may inform the existence of inadvertence or oversight, notwithstanding the general caution against attributing undue significance to arithmetical anomalies.
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