Is there a single appropriate sentence for a similar offender and a similar crime?

Alberta, Canada


The following excerpt is from R v Shular, 2014 ABCA 241 (CanLII):

The Queen v. C.A.M., 1996 CanLII 230 (SCC), [1996] 1 S.C.R. 500, 567 (“the search for a single appropriate sentence for a similar offender and a similar crime will frequently be a fruitless exercise of academic abstraction”).

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