A sentencing judge who initially confuses an offender with another person but corrects the error during the hearing and imposes a different sentence does not thereby sentence on an incorrect factual basis. Where a community corrections order has been extended twice and the offender has engaged in serious further offending, a sentence of imprisonment upon a third contravention is well within range. The parity principle does not produce a justifiable sense of grievance where the applicant received a more lenient sentence than the co-offender at all stages, even accounting for the co-offender's more extensive offending.
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