Key legal question
Whether the appellate court violated federal law in sentencing under Art. 63 StGB.
Extracted holding
No. The sentence was based on a proper overall assessment of all relevant mitigating and aggravating factors.
Extracted reasoning
The court may consider the scale of the qualifying drug offense, the danger to many people, the amount and type of drugs, the role of undercover assistance, high sensitivity to punishment, and the limited significance of a confession after police-led detection. No impermissible double counting occurred.