Opinion ID: 866160
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Heading: Marte

Text: The District Court determined that Marte was responsible for 5.6 kilograms of cocaine, based on his sales to three individuals: Hoggard, Sherman, and Glover (the New Haven-area drug dealer who testified on behalf of the government). To determine the quantities that Sherman and Glover purchased from Marte, the court relied in part on statements these two individuals made to authorities after their arrests. Marte argues that these statements were presumptively unreliable, and that the District Court erred by relying on them. We see no clear error in the District Court’s decision to credit these statements. We have held that district courts may rely on hearsay statements at sentencing without violating the Confrontation Clause, as long as the statements bear at least some indicia of reliability. See United States v. Martinez, 413 F.3d 239, 244 (2d Cir. 2005). Here, Sherman’s and Glover’s statements were adequately corroborated by phone calls in which Hoggard and Glover discussed purchasing drugs from Marte; calls in which Sherman and Hoggard discussed purchases of over 100 grams from Marte; and the 272 grams of cocaine police recovered from Sherman the night of his arrest.