UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

________________ _________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee,

v. SIMMON LEE WILCOX, Defendant - Appellant. No. 16-4094 (D.C. No. 2:13-CR-0 0717-TS-PMW-1) (D. Utah)

________________ _________________ ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

________________ _________________ Before HARTZ , BALDOCK , and BACHARACH , Circuit Judges.

________________ _________________ We affirm the sentence of Defendant Si mmon Lee Wilcox beca use he has not preserved arguments sufficient to show error in the calculation of his offense level. In 2013 a grand jury indicted Defendant an d five others in an indictment alleging an oxycodone-distribution conspiracy. Five counts named Defendant: one count of conspiring to distribute oxycodone, see 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846, and four counts of

* After examining the briefs and appellate re cord, this panel has determined unanimously that oral argument would not ma terially assist in the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2); 10th Cir. R. 34. 1(G). The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. This order and judg ment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent w ith Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1. FILED United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit 

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Elisabeth A. Shumaker Clerk of Court2 distributing oxycodone, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). In 2016 a jury found Defendant guilty of the conspiracy count and one distribution count. The presentence investigation report (PSR ) prepared by the pr obation office calculated Defendant’s guidelines sentence using th e 2015 version of the Guidelines Manual. Defendant’s base offense level depended on th e quantity of oxycodone attributed to him. The government had indicated that his conspiracy-related co nduct concerned 81,010 pills, each containing 30 milligrams of oxycodone. This amounted to 2, 430.3 grams of oxycodone. Under the guidelines equivalency tabl e, one gram of oxycodone equals 6,700 grams of marijuana, s ee USSG § 2D1.1 cmt. 8(D), so the marijuana-equivalent amount associated with Defendant was 16,283.01 kilograms. Defenda nt’s base offense level was therefore 34, which applies when the marijuana-equivalent ra nge is “[a]t least 10,000 KG but less than 30,000 KG.” Id. § 2D1.1(c)(3). The PSR’s u ltimate calculation was a total offense level of 36 and a criminal-history ca tegory of I, resulting in a sentencing range of 188 to 235 months. In a memorandum responding to the PSR, Defendant’s sole objection to the calculation of his offense level was that the allege d conspiracy did not start until January 2011, so any pills associated with earlier time pe riods should not be in cluded. Miscomputing the marijuana equivalent, he argued that “[ t]his reduces the pill count by approximately 8000 to a drug quantity reduc tion under the Marihuana Equiva lency to less than 10,000 kg.” R., Vol. 2 at 373. At his sentencing hearing Defendant’s so le pill-quantity argument again concerned the alleged 8, 000 preconspiracy pills. In response the government argued that trial testimony showed that the co nspiracy began before January 2011, making3 it appropriate to associate pills from that pe riod with Defendant. Th e district court overruled Defendant’s pill-count obje ction, and gave him a below-guidelines sentence of 100 months. On appeal Defendant raises several challenges to p ills predating and postdating January 2011, suggesting that collectively they cut enough pills from hi s total to bring the marijuana-equivalent amount of oxycodone asso ciated with him below 10,000 kilograms, which would reduce his offense level by two le vels. We note that the oxycodone equivalent of 10,000 kilograms of marijuana would be 1,492.54 grams of oxycodone, or about 49,750 of the 30-milligr am oxycodone pills. To reduce the number of pills enough to lower Defendant’s base offense level from 34 to 32, Defendant would need to show that 31,260 of the 81,010 pills attributed to him should not have been attributed. We question whether Defendant’s arguments , even if fully credited, would reduce the number of pills attributed to him by 31, 260. But we need not go through those arguments. He did not present to the sentencing court any challenge to pills distributed after January 2011, and our “general rule [is] that we do not a ddress arguments presented for the first time on appeal.” United States v. Mora , 293 F.3d 1213, 1216 (10th Cir. 2002). As for the 8,000-pill argument that Defendant did preserve, the argument is unavailing because it would not reduce De fendant’s offense level even if it were successful.4 We AFFIRM the district court’s sentence.

Entered for the Court

Harris L Hartz Circuit Judge