A challenge to a sentencing judge's characterisation of the level of seriousness of offending, or the designation of a 'range' within which it fell, does not constitute a ground of specific error capable of vitiating the sentencing discretion; it is properly considered as part of a manifest excess argument. A sentence of 4 years and 2 months' imprisonment for dangerous driving causing death where a truck driver failed to give way at a familiar intersection in ideal conditions, killing a cyclist wearing high-visibility clothing, was within the available range notwithstanding significant but unremarkable mitigating factors.
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