Even where the pre-Totaan error of requiring exceptional circumstances for familial hardship is established in Commonwealth sentencing, the error will not necessarily result in a lesser sentence where the sentencing judge took hardship into account as part of the general mix of subjective factors and the offending is objectively very serious.
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