United States v. Lavone Williams

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• discussing the authority that Congress gave sentencing courts under § 3553(e) to impose sentences below the normal statutory minimum and the limits of that statutory authority
• “[W]e hold that the only permissible basis for a below-minimum sentence is the defendant’s substantial assistance.”

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