A sentencing judge's failure to expressly refer to a discount for an early plea of guilty does not necessarily establish error where there are sufficient indicia that the discount was in fact applied, including references to the plea in the sentencing proceedings, the sentencing of co-offenders with express discounts on the same occasion, and mathematical consistency with a standard discount. A s 11 report from a sentencing judge that seeks to explain or justify an omission from sentencing remarks, rather than addressing matters not apparent on the record, should be disregarded.
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