Where an offender is sentenced on a second indictment cumulatively upon an existing sentence, the totality principle requires the overall total effective sentence to bear a proper relationship to the overall criminality, and the mitigating effect of guilty pleas must be reflected in the total effective sentence, not merely in individual sentences.
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