Opinion ID: 220180
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Heading: The District Court's Drug Quantity Determination

Text: Keck first contends the district court erred in finding him responsible for a drug quantity of over 1.5 kilograms, even though the jury only convicted him of conspiring to distribute over 50 grams of drugs. Our precedents foreclose this argument. We held in United States v. Magallanez, 408 F.3d 672, 685 (10th Cir.2005), that when a district court makes a determination of sentencing facts by a preponderance test under the now-advisory Guidelines, it is not bound by jury determinations reached through application of the more onerous reasonable doubt standard. Because Magallanez directly controls, the district court's drug-quantity determination was not clearly erroneous in light of the evidence presented at trial.