Where an offender's antecedents manifest a continuing attitude of disobedience of the law and show dangerous propensities, the necessity for specific deterrence and community protection are especially strong factors that must be specifically addressed in sentencing, and failure to do so constitutes error. The Whyte guideline judgment's assumed starting point of a young offender with limited priors means that specific deterrence and community protection play a reduced role in direct application of Whyte, and must be separately addressed for offenders with extensive criminal histories. An indicative sentence of 10 years and 1 month (after 25% plea discount from 13 years 6 months) was appropriate for a very serious vehicular manslaughter involving drug-affected driving through a red light in a school zone, killing a child, by an offender on an ICO for the same type of conduct.
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