When a sentencing judge adopts the approach of reducing individual sentences below the usual range and then adjusting concurrency, the ground of manifest inadequacy cannot be made out merely by establishing that individual sentences are too low or that concurrency is too high — the focus must be on the total effective sentence. However, the combination of lenient individual sentences and a very high degree of concurrency may result in a total effective sentence that fails to reflect the totality of criminality, particularly where separate offences are committed against different victims. The usual sentencing range for aggravated robbery in the ACT following a plea of guilty is 30 months to four years' imprisonment.
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