Where co-offenders have different offence structures and slightly different roles, a sentencing judge who has sentenced all related offenders and explicitly considered parity faces 'considerable obstacles' to a successful parity challenge. Involvement in cultivation at two properties (as opposed to one) and a slightly higher role as a conduit of information justifies a materially higher sentence than co-offenders who were labourers or crop sitters at a single property.
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