A sentencing judge's erroneous finding that a co-offender's sentence was reduced for totality, when totality was in fact addressed through concurrent sentences, constitutes a material express error requiring resentencing where the finding was used to differentiate the sentences. The distinction between reducing an individual sentence for totality and ordering concurrent sentences is material to the parity analysis.
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