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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff — Appellee, v. Vincent Edward LARKIN, Defendant— Appellant.
    No. 08-4425.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
    Submitted: Aug. 11, 2008.
    Decided: Sept. 23, 2008.
    Mary Lou Newberger, Federal Public Defender, Jonathan D. Byrne, Appellate Counsel, Christian M. Capece, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant. Charles T. Miller, United States Attorney, Miller A. Bushong, Assistant United States Attorney, Beckley, West Virginia, for Appellee.
    Before MICHAEL, KING, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
    Affirmed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
   PER CURIAM:

Vincent Edward Larkin appeals the district court’s order revoking his supervised release and sentencing him to twelve months of imprisonment. He argues that the sentence is plainly unreasonable because it does not further the purposes of supervised release. We affirm.

This court will affirm a sentence imposed after revocation of supervised release if it is within the applicable statutory maximum and is not plainly unreasonable. United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d 433, 437, 439-40 (4th Cir.2006). We first assess the sentence for reasonableness, “follow[ing] generally the procedural and substantive considerations that we employ in our review of original sentences, ... with some necessary modifications to take into account the unique nature of supervised release revocation sentences.” Id. at 438-39; see United States v. Finley, 531 F.3d 288, 294 (4th Cir.2008) (“In applying the ‘plainly unreasonable’ standard, we first determine, using the instructions given in Gall [v. United States, — U.S.-, 128 S.Ct. 586, 597, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007)], whether a sentence is ‘unreasonable.’ ”). Only if a sentence is found proeedurally or substantively unreasonable will we “decide whether the sentence is plainly unreasonable.” Id.; see Finley, 531 F.3d at 294. Although the district court must consider the Chapter 7 policy statements and the requirements of 18 U.S.CA. §§ 3553(a), 3583 (West 2000 & Supp.2008), “the [district] court ultimately has broad discretion to revoke its previous sentence and impose a term of imprisonment up to the statutory maximum.” Crudup, 461 F.3d at 439 (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).

Larkin does not challenge the procedural aspects of his sentence, or assert that it exceeds either the Guidelines range or the statutory maximum. Rather, he argues that the district court’s remarks about domestic violence indicate that the court failed to adequately consider the purposes of supervised release in choosing to impose imprisonment rather than home detention. “In determining the reasonableness of a sentence, we ‘give due deference to the district court’s decision.’ ” Finley, 531 F.3d at 297 (quoting Gall, 128 S.Ct. at 597). Our review of the record leads us to conclude that the sentence is not unreasonable.

Accordingly, we affirm Larkin’s sentence. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED.