Post-arrest rehabilitation efforts, including drug therapy, employment, and cessation of drug use, may warrant fixing a parole eligibility date earlier than the halfway mark for drug trafficking sentences, even where those matters were not sufficiently placed before the sentencing judge. A sentence of seven years and four months imprisonment is within range for trafficking in cocaine over a four-month period involving sales totalling $38,500.
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