A guilty plea entered in the ACT Magistrates Court to an indictable offence proximate to the receipt of the brief of evidence is a plea 'at an early stage of criminal proceedings' attracting a 25% discount, and the observations in Calatzis v Jones do not depart from this established practice. A plea at the new early arraignment procedure in the Supreme Court could also attract a 25% discount as 'the earliest reasonable opportunity'. The starting point for a serious aggravated robbery in company with a weapon and injury to the victim was 3 years 6 months imprisonment.
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