When challenging an aggregate sentence as manifestly excessive, the focus must be on whether the aggregate sentence fairly reflects the totality of the criminality, not on whether individual indicative sentences are excessive per se. A lack of uniformity in indicative sentences for similar offences does not necessarily, much less inevitably, establish that the aggregate sentence is manifestly excessive. The relative severity of indicative sentences is relevant only insofar as it suggests error in the aggregate sentence itself.
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