The assessment of objective seriousness of drug supply offending as 'slightly above the mid-range' was upheld where the offender played a trusted and integral role in large-scale supply involving approximately 37 times the large commercial quantity threshold, high purity drugs, professionally installed concealed compartments, and encrypted communications, notwithstanding that the offender was not the principal. Bare sentencing statistics without analysis of the underlying facts of the cases are of limited utility in establishing manifest excess.
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