The most common basis for sentence appeals in Victoria is that the original sentence, or some part of it, was manifestly excessive. To date, no empirical research has been undertaken examining the bounds of manifest excess. When is a sentence not just excessive, but manifestly so? This article fills that gap by examining 100 successful manifest excess sentence appeals between 2014 and 2020, finding that the minimum reduction in a manifestly excessive sentence is about 10 per cent, but that even then, such small reductions are rare and usually in the context of sentences of four years or more.

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什么时候句子明显过分？

维多利亚州判决上诉最常见的依据是原判或部分判刑明显过度。迄今为止，尚未进行任何实证研究来检验明显过剩的界限。什么时候一个句子不仅过分，而且明显过分？本文通过检查 2014 年至 2020 年间成功的 100 起明显超量刑上诉来填补这一空白，发现明显超量刑的最低减刑约为 10%，但即便如此，如此小的减刑也很少见，而且通常在以下情况下四年或以上的刑期。