Where an offender is simultaneously serving parole for other offending and on home detention bail for the offences being sentenced, the constraint on liberty during that period may be referable to the parole rather than the pending charges, and a sentencing judge may appropriately decline to make any allowance for the time on home detention bail. An accused's exercise of the right to put the prosecution to proof at a bail application is not deceptive conduct that can be held against them at sentencing.
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