An extensive prior criminal history demonstrating persistent indifference to the rule of law can justify a marked sentencing disparity between co-offenders whose offending is objectively identical in gravity, and remarks made at a sentencing indication hearing on different charges have no bearing on the assessment of manifest excess on appeal.
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