Early in this decade, Congress became concerned that the inflexibility of statutory mandatory minimum sentences was resulting in unjust punishments in some cases. Congress was particularly concerned with the inability of federal trial courts to consider mitigating factors to impose proportionally lower sentences on the least culpable participants in multi-defendant drug trafficking cases. See H.R.Rep...
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