A sentencing judge may reject an unchallenged psychologist's opinion about the nexus between mental health conditions and offending conduct where the opinion's key conclusion is speculative and unsupported by evidence of the conditions existing at the time of offending, and the failure to raise the issue with counsel before rejecting the opinion does not constitute a denial of procedural fairness where no practical injustice is demonstrated.
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