Forfeiture of property under a mandatory drug trafficker declaration is not automatically a significant mitigating factor; the offender bears the onus of demonstrating that forfeited property was unrelated to criminal activity. The 'one transaction' rule has limited utility in drug cases where different types of drugs are stored at different locations with differing purities, even if all discovered on the same day. A fast-track guilty plea does not mandate any minimum percentage discount; the question is whether the sentencing judge properly evaluated the worth of the plea in all the circumstances.
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