United States v. Ortiz, Jose

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• recognizing that we construe waiver/forfeiture principles liberally in favor of criminal defendants
• holding court clearly erred when it failed to make specific findings on whether additional cocaine involved relevant con- duct
• finding no temporal proximity where there was, at a minimum, a ten-month gap between the drug transactions
• finding no temporal proximity where there was, at a minimum, a ten-month gap between the drug transactions
• applying clear error standard to calculation of drug quantity based on relevant conduct
• finding no relevant conduct when there was a ten-month gap between charged conduct and relevant conduct and where the offenses were not sufficiently similar because they involved different drugs, a smaller scale operation, and significantly smaller drug quantities

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