A sentencing judge is not obliged to aggregate quantities of different drugs and sentence as if only one drug were trafficked; trafficking of different drugs deserves separate recognition in the sentencing process and may warrant cumulation even where there is significant overlap in the offending conduct. A sentencing judge who ascribes 'very high utilitarian value' to a guilty plea need not make explicit reference to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the court system to be taken to have accounted for the heightened utilitarian value of the plea.
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