United States v. Gene E. Beler

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the product of the approximate amount of weekly or monthly cocaine purchases and the number of weeks or months of involvement “is an acceptable method of estimating drug quantity”
• calling into question reliability of affidavit stating drug quantity when affiant testified at trial he was unable to estimate quantity
• refusing to uphold a sentence where witness gave conflicting reports of the quantity of drugs involved in the defendant's usual purchases
• fact that defendant made numerous drug sales does not, by itself, corroborate specific estimates of drug quantity
• “Our rejection of the drug quantity estimated in Covington’s second affidavit does not bar Covington from providing drug quantity information on remand.”
• “ ‘[A] determination that [the defendant’s] drug activity was substantial does not translate readily into a specific drug quantity finding, which is the ultimate issue for sentencing purposes.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).