A sentencing judge's failure to take into account the utilitarian value of a plea of guilty to Commonwealth offences constitutes error requiring resentencing, even where the discount ultimately applied would have been the same percentage. Conditions of custody rendered more onerous through no fault of the offender (here, racial vilification causing PTSD) are a factor of some significance on sentence.
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