The case confirms the application of established manifest excess principles in the ACT, including that intoxication at the time of offending is not of itself a mitigating factor, that fresh evidence relating to post-sentence events is not relevant to assessing manifest excess, and that comparative sentencing cases provide only general yardstick guidance.
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