A sentencing judge's characterisation of an offender's emotional state as 'cold' is not inconsistent with a finding of anger-driven offending, and the concepts of coldness and emotional arousal are not binary or mutually exclusive; the Bowden balancing exercise for sex offender registration may be performed implicitly rather than expressly articulated.
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