United States v. Marcus C. Durham

How courts have described this case

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• holding that court may take witnesses’ estimates of amount of drugs purchased and multiply that by minimum quantity sold on each occasion
• stating that “estimates of drug quantity are acceptable if they are based on evidence possessing a sufficient indicia of reliability and not nebulous eyeball- ing”
• holding \there is nothing objectionable in the prosecutor's description of the defendant as a 'slick little dope dealer' who 'uses kids and exploits them to peddle poison.'\
• analyzing the calculation of the quantity of drugs based on the regular receipt of drugs by the defendant’s employee
• analyzing the calculation of the quantity of drugs based on the regular receipt of drugs by the defendant’s employee
• declining to vacate conviction due to closing argument in which prosecutor referred to defendant as “slick little dope dealer” who “uses kids and exploits them to peddle poison”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).