Where two offences of violence arise from a single incident but involve separate victims (one a Good Samaritan intervener), cumulative sentences are appropriate and total or partial concurrency would not properly reflect overall criminality. The varying outcomes in comparable sentencing cases reflect the variable circumstances of violent offending and do not, without more, demonstrate that a total effective sentence infringes the totality principle.
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