SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
A claim of selective prosecution depends in large part on a defendant's ability to prove that the government has treated him differently from similarly situated offenders. The appeal before us turns on what factors courts should take into account in configuring the pool of similarly situated offenders for purposes of this comparison. The tale follows.
In the underlying case, the government charged defendant-appellant Samuel J....
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