SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal features a dispute about the extent to which scientific evidence must be adduced at sentencing before the court can impose the onerous penalties attached to trafficking in crack cocaine. We pause first to set the stage and address another, more mundane issue. We then proceed to the sentencing question.
I. BACKGROUND
On January 6, 1997, Providence police officers obtained a warrant authorizing them to search residential...
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