A sentencing judge is not required to identify a causal connection between an offender's childhood deprivation and the offending in order for the deprivation to be taken into account in sentencing under Bugmy; it is sufficient to have regard to the totality of the psycho-social evidence to arrive at a single assessment of moral culpability.
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