A sentencing judge's finding that voluntary drug ingestion aggravated offending requires satisfaction beyond reasonable doubt that the offender was aware at the time of offending of the probability that the drug would predispose them to the offending conduct. Post-offending insight into the consequences of drug use, obtained from a later psychiatric assessment, cannot be equated with contemporaneous foresight at the time of offending.
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