Where an offender's mental illness is causally connected to the offending and the offender's dominant motive is to be arrested rather than to achieve the criminal objective, the sentencing judge must expressly address how these factors affect objective seriousness, moral culpability, and the weight to be given to general and specific deterrence. Failure to express a conclusion on objective seriousness or to address moral culpability in such circumstances constitutes appealable error.
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