Where an offender commits two sets of similar burglary offences within a short period arising from the same underlying cause (drug relapse), near-total accumulation of sentences without application of the totality principle will result in a manifestly excessive aggregate sentence. The sentencing range for residential burglary in the ACT is generally one to two years and six months' imprisonment.
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