When sentencing an offender who is serving an interstate sentence with a low non-parole period reflecting that jurisdiction's sentencing practice, the Victorian court is not required to adopt or reflect the other jurisdiction's non-parole period ratio. The totality principle requires assessment of overall criminality and what the total sentence would have been if all offending were sentenced at once, but the court may impose a sentence that results in a higher effective non-parole period ratio than the interstate sentence alone.
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