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Parties Involved:
Terance Terrail Raymo
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined

that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent

except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.

R. 47.5.4.

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

FILED

April 20, 2004

Charles R. Fulbruge III

Clerk

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

 

No. 03-41194

Conference Calendar

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

versus

TERANCE TERRAIL RAYMO,

Defendant-Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Eastern District of Texas

USDC No. 1:02-CR-191-1

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Before JOLLY, JONES, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Terance Terrail Raymo appeals his guilty plea conviction and

sentence for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base in

violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). He argues that the district

court clearly erred in overruling his objection to the

presentence report’s drug-quantity calculation and including the

10.72 grams of cocaine base recovered on August 8, 2002, as

relevant conduct under U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3(a)(2). Raymo also argues

that the quantity of the cocaine base (10.72 grams) is

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insufficient as a matter of law to create an inference of intent

to distribute.

Raymo has not demonstrated that the district court clearly

erred in including the 10.72 grams of cocaine base as relevant

conduct. This offense was sufficiently similar and in close

temporal proximity to the offense of conviction to reasonably

suggest that it constituted the same course of conduct. See

United States v. Bethley, 973 F.2d 396, 401 (5th Cir. 1992);

United States v. Ocana, 204 F.3d 585, 589-90 (5th Cir. 2000). 

Further, Raymo has not demonstrated that the district court

clearly erred in finding that he possessed the 10.72 grams of

cocaine base for distribution purposes rather than for personal

consumption. See United States v. Buck, 324 F.3d 786, 796 (5th

Cir. 2003); United States v. Kates, 174 F.3d 580, 582-83 (5th

Cir. 1999). 

Therefore, the district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED. 

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