Parity principles do not apply where an offender was sentenced for a substantive offence on indictment and co-offenders had the corresponding offence taken into account on a Form 1 document, because no meaningful comparison of sentences is possible. The prosecutor's discretion to include charges on a Form 1 rather than on an indictment is not reviewable through parity principles once pleas have been entered.
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