Past cooperation with authorities that yields no benefit to the State may still be mitigating, but where the cooperation is of such limited value that it does not meet criteria for grading, a sentencing judge is not required to give a separate quantifiable discount and may instead take it into account in the general sentencing disposition. Those who warehouse large quantities of drugs and cash for others play an important role in distribution networks, and possession of unlawfully obtained cash in addition to drugs materially increases overall criminality warranting partial accumulation of sentences.
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