A sentencing judge's misdescription of an offender's specific role in an armed robbery committed as a joint criminal enterprise is not a material error where the sentencing assessment was driven by the collective nature of the enterprise and each participant's liability for the acts of the others. The manifest excess threshold requires demonstration that the sentence was wholly outside the permissible range of reasonable sentences, not merely that some other sentence could have been imposed.
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