Where a co-offender played a greater role in a conspiracy but has a more compelling subjective case, and the applicant was involved in a separate larger importation, identical sentences may be imposed without giving rise to a justifiable sense of grievance. The pre-discount starting point may be analysed as part of a manifest excess ground. Comparable starting points for conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of pseudoephedrine ranged from 9 to 14 years in the cases surveyed.
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