A sentencing judge's misstatement of the standard non-parole period will vitiate the sentence where the appellate court cannot be confident the error did not affect the sentencing discretion, even where the judge later referred to the standard non-parole period in general terms. Where there is unresolved conflict in evidence relevant to resentencing, the CCA will remit rather than resentence.
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