Where a psychologist's report contains diagnoses or symptoms consistent with mental health conditions relevant to an offender's criminality, the report is relevant to sentencing and should be received. Counsel's failure to accurately convey the contents of such a report to the sentencing judge may constitute a miscarriage in the sentencing process. The vulnerability of an offender to the influence of others, as identified in psychological evidence, may support the imposition of court ordered parole with supervision rather than a wholly suspended sentence.
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