Where a co-offender's less serious objective offending, greater remorse, and serious medical conditions are offset by a significantly worse criminal history (including prior serious drug offending disentitling the offender to leniency), the same total sentence as the co-offender does not give rise to a justifiable sense of grievance, particularly where differential findings of special circumstances result in a shorter non-parole period for the applicant.
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