Where an offender claims gambling addiction as a mitigating factor on sentence but approximately $2.7 million of $3.7 million misappropriated remains unaccounted for, the offender does not give sworn evidence, and expert opinions are based largely on self-report, a sentencing judge is entitled to decline to find the causal nexus between gambling disorder and offending established on the balance of probabilities. The sentencing judge may leave motive unestablished in accordance with the Olbrich 'middle position' without committing error.
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