Where a sentencing judge imposes separate sentences on multiple charges, a Director's notice of appeal must specify which sentence or sentences are under appeal; a notice referring only to 'the sentence imposed' is invalid and renders the appeal incompetent. The combination of spontaneous remorse, significant delay (approximately eight years), substantial rehabilitation during the delay period, and the utilitarian value of a guilty plea during the COVID-19 pandemic may constitute sufficiently powerful mitigating circumstances to support a combination sentence of imprisonment and a CCO even for serious sexual offending in a domestic violence context.
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