Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos RODRIGUEZ, aka Face, aka Seal P, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-06-26
Citations: 580 F. App'x 613
Docket Number: No. 12-50512
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos RODRIGUEZ, aka Face, aka Seal P, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 580
Pages: 613–614

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos RODRIGUEZ, aka Face, aka Seal P, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 12-50512.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 3, 2014.
Filed June 26, 2014.
Jean-Claude Andre, Assistant U.S., E. Martin Estrada, Assistant U.S., Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, Jeffrey Backhus, Assistant U.S., Office of the U.S. Attorney, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Gene Vorobyov, Law Office of Gene Vo-robyov, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Carlos Rodriguez, Adelanto, CA, pro se.
Before: TROTT and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges, and BENNETT, District Judge.
The Honorable Mark W. Bennett, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
A jury convicted appellant Carlos Rodriguez of conspiracy to distribute at least five-hundred grams of methamphetamine mixture or at least fifty grams of pure methamphetamine. See 21 U.S.C. § 846, 841(a)(1), 841(b)(l)(A)(viii). After we re versed the jury's methamphetamine quantity finding, United States v. Maciel, 461 Fed.Appx. 610, 615-16 (9th Cir.2011), the district court made the quantity determination anew and found Rodriguez responsible for approximately seventy grams of methamphetamine mixture with a purity of forty-two percent. That finding put Rodriguez at base offense level twenty-eight and a Sentencing Guidelines range of 140 to 175 months. Taking into account Rodriguez's criminal history and the danger he posed to the community, the district court sentenced Rodriguez to 188 months.
Rodriguez now asks us (1) to vacate and remand his sentence because the district court's quantity determination was clearly erroneous, and (2) to strike the condition of his supervised release forbidding him from associating with "persons associated with the F-13 gang" as unconstitutionally vague. We affirm Rodriguez's sentence, but remand to the district court to strike the clause "or persons associated with the F-13 gang" from Rodriguez's conditions of supervised release.
The government concedes that the clause "or persons associated with the F-13 gang" in Rodriguez's conditions of supervised release is unconstitutionally vague. See United States v. Johnson, 626 F.3d 1085, 1091 (9th Cir.201(j). On remand, the district court shall revise condition nine accordingly.
We conclude that the district court's thoughtful and careful use of comparator evidence seized from Rodriguez's suppliers to calculate the purity and thus the quantity of the methamphetamine involved in the conspiracy possessed "sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy." United States v. Forrester, 616 F.3d 929, 949 (9th Cir.2010); accord United States v. Lopes-Montes, 165 F.3d 730, 731-32 (9th Cir.1999). Moreover, the district court exercised appropriate caution and gave the defendant the benefit of the doubt in using forty-two percent purity instead of ninety-eight percent — as urged by the government — as a starting point. See id.
AFFIRMED in part and REMANDED for further proceedings.
jyg disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.