Where a co-offender's sentence is reduced on appeal, eliminating a sentencing differential that properly reflected differences in culpability, the parity principle requires restoration of the original sentencing relativities in the absence of identifiable error in the original sentencing approach. The Court will approach such cases on the basis that the distinction drawn by the sentencing judge should be maintained.
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