Where an offender's intellectual impairment co-exists with drug addiction as a contributing factor to offending, and the offences are planned and non-spontaneous, a sentencing judge may find that the impairment does not substantially reduce culpability for the purposes of s 5(2H)(c)(i) of the Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic). The fact that offences of the same type are committed by persons without intellectual disability does not preclude consideration of the Verdins principles, but the planned and rational nature of the offending may diminish the weight given to the causal link between impairment and offending.
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