Where sentences have been structured to accumulate on a lengthy sentence that is subsequently quashed, the remaining sentences may be both manifestly excessive in total term and manifestly inadequate in non-parole period, because the totality adjustment that justified the sentence structure no longer has a foundation. The quantity of a drug supplied is to be assessed by reference to its proportion of the prescribed large commercial quantity for that specific drug, not merely by its absolute weight. Expert psychological reports based solely on telephone interviews with offenders who do not give evidence should be treated with circumspection.
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