Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, v. Carlos DURRDER, a/k/a Pedro Jiminez, Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-10-23
Citations: 78 F. App'x 799
Docket Number: No. 02-3676
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, v. Carlos DURRDER, a/k/a Pedro Jiminez, Appellant.
Judges: Before SLOVITER, ROTH and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 78
Pages: 799–801

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, v. Carlos DURRDER, a/k/a Pedro Jiminez, Appellant.
No. 02-3676.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) Oct. 17, 2003.
Decided Oct. 23, 2003.
Mary E. Crawley, Richard J. Zack, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee.
Paul J. Hetznecker, Hetznecker & Meehan, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.
Before SLOVITER, ROTH and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
STAPLETON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Pedro Jiminez, a/k/a Carlos Durrder, was convicted by a jury of conspiring to distribute heroin and several other drug offenses. He was sentenced to 169 months of imprisonment. On appeal, we remanded to the District Court for a resentencing hearing at which factual findings would be made regarding the amount of drugs that were to be attributed to the defendant. On remand, the District Court made the required findings and resentenced Jiminez to 169 months.
On this second appeal, Jiminez insists that prejudicial hearsay was admitted at his trial. He made no such claim in his first appeal, and it is accordingly waived. Claims of error that could and should have been raised on appeal are not preserved for review in a subsequent appeal. United States v. Pultrone, 241 F.3d 306, 307-08 (3d Cir.2001).
Jiminez's only other challenge to the judgment on review is a claim that the District Court erred in concluding that he was responsible for distributing approximately 4000 grams of heroin. Our review of the record convinces us that there was ample reliable evidence in the trial record to support this conclusion.
United States Sentencing Guidelines § 2D1.1 directs district courts to estimate quantities of unseized drugs. That section provides that "where there is no drug seizure or the amount seized does not reflect the scale of the offense, the Court shall approximate the quantity of the controlled substance. In making this determination, the court may consider, for example, similar transactions in controlled substances by the defendant." U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 app. note 12 (1998).
Duran-Mariano and Peralta-Victorio were active participants in the drug con spiracy who testified at length about how often Jiminez had supplied them with heroin for resale and in what quantities. The District Court analyzed their testimony and reasonably and conservatively extrapolated to estimate Jiminez's distributions throughout the life of the conspiracy.
The Sentencing Guidelines do not demand certainty and precision. They demand that the Court do the best it can with the evidence in the record, erring on the side of caution. See United States v. Cook, 76 F.3d 596, 604 (4th Cir.1996). The District Court followed the letter and spirit of the law, and we can find no fault with its resulting estimate.
The judgment of the District Court will be affirmed.