OPINION OF THE COURT
RENDELL, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are asked to determine what factors a district court may consider when sentencing a defendant below a statutory minimum term of imprisonment in order to take his assistance to the government into account pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e). We hold that a district court cannot use factors unrelated to a defendant's substantial assistance to the government in order to reduce a sentence below...
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