A sentencing judge's conflation of objective seriousness and moral culpability in ex tempore remarks is at most a slip in language that is understandable and excusable absent serious injustice. Medical evidence of permanent injury is not required to classify an offence as falling toward the upper end of objective seriousness where the agreed facts clearly indicate the severity of injuries. A sentencing judge is not required to make specific findings as to extra-curial punishment where the instinctive synthesis exercise encompasses the offender's subjective case including injuries sustained.
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