This is Thоmas Sumner’s second effort to obtain some relief from a 132-month sentence for drug dealing. On his first appeal to this court, he was partially successful: we vacated his sentence and remanded for resentencing because the district court had not made adequate factual findings linking his uncharged trafficking of a substantial amount of crack cocaine to the offense of conviction.
United States v. Sumner,
I
Although we reviewed the facts in our earlier opinion, we repeat the highlights for ease of reference. In August 1999, the FBI and the Federal Housing Drug Task Force conducted a sting operation against the then-seventy-five-year-old Sumner, who was selling drugs from his home in Carrier Mills, Illinois. Three different confidential sources purchased cocaine from Sumner. One named customer, Chrissy Smith, reported upon leaving his residence that she had just seen someone purchase a large amount of crack cocaine. On September 15, 1999, agents executed a search warrant and found in the housе powder cocaine and marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and firearms. No crack cocaine was recovered during the search.
Sumner was arrested and, after waiving his Miranda rights, made a series of statements concerning the timing, amounts, and types of drug sales he had engaged in beginning in “possibly the winter of 1997.” Sumner specifically admitted to selling crack cocaine for a period of two months in 1997. He stopped, he explained, after he witnessed one of his customers in the throes of a convulsive reaction to the crack; from that time onward, he limited his stock to powder cocaine and marijuana. (Smith, of course, claimed otherwise, as she reported a crack sale as late as August of 1999.) Sumner said that Troy Ash had been his principal supplier until August 1998, when Ash was arrested.
At a proffer interview, Sumner provided still morе information, confirming and enlarging upon information he provided in *887 the post-arrest interview. He again named Ash as his supplier until Ash’s arrest. After Ash left the picture, Sumner turned, in July 1999, to a man named Mark LNU (or last name unknown, in FBI jargon — we will call him “Mark”). Mark supplied Sumner until Sumner’s September 1999 arrest. Sumner admitted that he had allowed others to cook powder cocaine into crack cocaine at his residencе. Cooperating witnesses confirmed many of these details, although at least one source claimed to have purchased powder cocaine from Sumner as early as April 1999, which was three months before Sumner claims he located Mark as a source.
The post-arrest interview formed the basis for the pre-sentence report (PSR). Based on the amounts and timing of sales Sumner repоrted in the post-arrest interview, the Probation Office determined that he sold 56.7 grams of crack cocaine in the winter of 1997 (with Ash as supplier), 198.45 grams of powder cocaine from January to July 1998 (again with Ash as supplier), 198.45 grams of powder cocaine from April to September 1999 (with Mark as supplier), and 34.3 grams of marijuana.
Sumner made several objections to the PSR. In them, he presented a very different aсcount of his dealings than he had done in his post-arrest and proffer interviews. Many of the PSR findings, he now claimed, lacked “sufficient indicia of reliability.” He denied ever receiving powder cocaine from Ash. Instead, according to Sumner’s new account, Ash gave him only seven grams of crack cocaine. Along similar lines, Sumner claimed that he had received only six ounces of powder cocаine from Mark. Sumner summarized the amounts that he believed could be counted as relevant conduct as follows: seven grams of crack cocaine, six ounces (which corresponds to approximately 170 grams) of powder cocaine, and 34 grams of marijuana. The PSR, in contrast, recommended that the court find 56.7 grams of crack, 397 grams of powder cocaine, and 34 grams of marijuana. When specifically asked about the relevant-conduct issue, defense counsel reiterated the amounts Sumner was advocating. Defense counsel also expressed concern that the PSR erroneously found that at least some of the relevant conduct took place during Sumner’s probation from August 1996 to October 1998 on unrelated charges of public indecency.
At the ensuing sentencing hеaring, the court heard evidence from Agent Kirkham, who had been present at both the post-arrest and proffer interviews. Agent Kirkham testified about statements Sumner made on both occasions. Sumner also testified, changing his story for a third time. In contradiction to his post-arrest interview, proffer interview, and objections to the PSR, Sumner now claimed that he had briefly dealt in crack cocaine, but in 1992 rather thаn 1997, and that he never did so again. He also stated that he had no other drug dealings until he began selling powder cocaine in March of 1999. Sumner also specifically testified that he did not sell any drugs during his probation, between October 1997 and October 1998. He explained that he kept marijuana around because “girls” liked it, but that the “girls” in question were always of adult age. Sumner was then forced to admit that a 16-year-оld girl was present in his house at the time of his arrest.
The district court rejected all of Sumner’s shifting stories and effectively adopted the PSR. It sentenced him to 132 months’ imprisonment, based on 1,213.72 kilograms of marijuana equivalent as well as guidelines enhancements for violation of his probation and possession of firearms, and a reduction for acceptance of responsibility. Sumner then appealed.
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On appeal, we vacated his sentence and remanded for resentencing on a single ground: that the district court had failed to make adequate findings of fact whether the crack cocaine dealings in 1997 were part of the same course of conduct for sentencing purposes. See
Sumner I,
Sumner took the remand as a more open-ended invitation to continue challenging his sentence. As contemplated by our mandate, he filed supplemental objections to inclusion of the crack cocaine dealings. In addition, however, he challenged the inclusion of 198.45 grams of powder cocaine allegedly received from Ash. This was an objection Sumner had initially mаde to the PSR, but he did not include it in his first appeal to this court. Sumner also renewed another of his objections to the PSR — again, one he had not raised in ■ his first appeal — that he did not deal in crack or powder cocaine during his probation. The government filed a Supplemental Addendum to the PSR in opposition.
At the resentencing hearing, the district court heard additional testimony from Agent Kirkham, but nothing morе from Sumner. The district court specifically found Agent Kirkham’s testimony credible and specifically rejected Sumner’s. It found that the 1997 crack dealings should be included in the relevant conduct calculations, because they were sufficiently linked in terms of similarity, regularity, and temporal proximity to Sumner’s sales of powder cocaine. Finally, the court found that Sumner’s dealings with drugs supplied by Ash took place during Sumner’s рrobation. The court again sentenced Sumner to 132 months’ imprisonment. This appeal followed.
II
We turn first to Sumner’s argument that the district court improperly allowed the government to present new testimony at the remanded sentencing hearing. This contention presents a question of law, which we generally review
de novo.
See
Jaffee v. Redmond,
_ Sumner’s sole authority for his argument is our decision in
United States v. Wyss,
Sumner contends that Wyss stands for the broad proposition that the government may never offer new evidence on a sentencing remand. He sees no difference between an issue that was fully explored at the initial sentencing hearing and one that received no attention, but was nevertheless reviewed on appeal under the plain error standard. We disagree. Such a rule would require the government to anticipate and present evidence on every conceivable issue that might later be found to constitute plain error on appeal. This *889 would impose an impossible burden on the government. Furthermore, it would actually give the defendant a benefit from plain error review of a forfeited issue, instead of merely relieving him or her from the consequences оf failure to preserve the issue. Nothing in fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) supports such a consequence. We conclude that the Wyss rule does not preclude the government, on a sentencing remand, to introduce evidence relevant to points that the defendant forfeited but that were considered on plain error review by this court.
Ill
We turn next to Sumner’s challenges to three separate factual findings made by the district court at resentencing: first, whether the district court erred in finding that the crack and powder cocaine dealings were part of the same course of conduct for sentencing purposes (the issue we remanded to the court); second, whether the district court erred in finding that half of Sumner’s powder cocaine dealings were also part of the relevant course of conduct; and third, whether the district court erred in determining that Sumner committed drug offenses during the term of his probation, warranting a two-point enhancement. To the extent that these arguments are properly before us (which we discuss below), our review is for clear error only. See
United States v. Morrison,
A
First, we take up Sumner’s claim that the district court erred in finding that his crack cocaine dealings were relevant conduct for sentencing purposes. The core of Sumner’s contention is that the alleged crack cocaine dealings lack the similarity, regularity, and temporal proximity to the later powder cocaine dealings required by Section 1B1.3 of the Sentencing Guidelines to justify treating them as part of a single course of conduct.
In calculating a defendant’s base offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines, “the sentenсing court must consider types and quantities of drugs not specified in the counts of conviction but that were ‘part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan’ as the convicted offenses.”
United States v. Beler,
The district cоurt found that the crack dealings were similar for several reasons, including the facts that comparable quantities of drugs were sold, all sales
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were made from Sumner’s residence, and Sumner was involved (either actively or passively) in the cooking of powder cocaine into crack at his residence. Even Sumner conceded that he was selling “2 ounces of powder cocaine a mоnth” for a seven-month period prior to his September 1999 arrest, which is not very different from the “quarter ounce per week of crack” in 1997 to which he admitted. The fact that the Guidelines treat powder and crack cocaine differently for sentencing purposes in no way prevents the two substances from being included in one course of conduct. Indeed, we have cases in which two entirely diffеrent substances meet that test. See,
e.g., Acosta,
Sumner next challenges the district court’s finding of regularity. In
Sykes,
this court defined “regularity” as “repeated acts or events that take place ‘[a]t fixed or certain intervals’ or ‘[i]n accordancе with some consistent or periodical rule or practice.’ ”
Perhaps recognizing this, Sumner also claims that the district court erred by relying exclusively on statements he made at the post-arrest interview regarding the amount and the timing of his 1997 crack sales. A defendant has the burden of producing at least some evidence that the PSR is unreliable or inaccurate beyond a bare denial, if the facts set forth in a PSR bear “sufficient indicia of reliability to suppоrt [their] probable accuracy.” U.S.S.G. § 6A1.3(a);
United States v. Coonce,
This puts him in an odd position, however, given the district court’s decision to credit Agent Kirkham’s account of Sumner’s post-arrest and proffer interviews. Sumner’s own statements, as reported by Agent Kirkham, provided the basis for the PSR’s conclusions. • The district court was entitled to credit those admissions even in the absence of independent evidence corroborating them. See
United States v. Galbraith,
Last, we consider the district court’s finding of temporal proximity between the crack and the cocaine sales. Sumner relies principally on the time that elapsed between his 1997-98 dealings in cocaine supplied by Ash and his 1999 dealings as supplied by Mark to show a lack of the necessary temporal proximity. We have held in the past, however, that an involuntary respite from criminal conduct does not preclude a finding of temporal proximity. See
Cedano-Rojas,
In sum, we find no clear error in the district court’s conclusion that the 56.7 grams of crack cocaine should be included as relevant conduct for purposes of computing his guideline level.
B
Sumner would like us to resolve two more points as well: whether the district court erred in including half of his powder cocaine dealings for relevant conduct purpоses, and whether the court should have imposed a two-point enhancement under Section 4Al.l(d) of the Sentencing Guidelines for violation of the probation he was serving for his earlier public indecency offense. We conclude that neither point is open to him anymore, and thus we do not consider them.
With respect to the powder cocaine argument, the government has argued that Sumnеr’s failure to raise it on his first appeal means that he has waived it for all time. We are not sure that strict waiver applies in these circumstances, given the fact that Sumner did file an appropriate objection in the district court to the PSR, but we are certain that the law-of-the-case doctrine precludes him from raising it now. We have repeatedly stated that changes in litigation positiоn on successive appeals are barred except where justified by intervening authority, new and previously undiscoverable evidence, or other changed circumstances. See
People Who Care v. Rockford Bd. of Educ.,
The posture of Sumner’s argument about the two-point enhancement under Section 4Al.l(d) of the Sentencing Guidelines for violation of his probation served for his earlier public indeсency offense is the same. As with his powder cocaine claims, Sumner made objections to the PSR, but he did not raise the issue of the probation enhancement in his first appeal. It too cannot be raised at this late date, because of the law-of-the-case doctrine. (Sumner is not losing anything here, because it is a matter of record that his probation officially ran from August 1996 to October 1998, and he admitted receiving both crack and powder cocaine from Ash from the winter of 1997 through August 1998.)
IY
For these reasons, we Affirm the judgment of the district court.