Where a sentencing judge discovers a factual error during delivery of sentencing remarks, applying a mathematical reduction to sentences already determined on the erroneous basis constitutes an impermissible two-stage approach to sentencing. The judge must either resentence afresh on the correct facts or, if unable to do so with intellectual objectivity, arrange for another judge to sentence the offender.
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