Mental illness that contributes to drug use which in turn causes drug supply offending can pull sentencing considerations in different directions — reducing the weight of general deterrence while simultaneously increasing the significance of specific deterrence. A ground of appeal framed in terms of the weight given to specific deterrence is unlikely to establish House v The King error. Where an aggregate sentence is imposed, the appeal lies from the aggregate sentence and questions of accumulation cannot be analysed in the same way as with traditional sentencing structures.
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