Case ID: f-appx_299/html/0118-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America v. Deion PRESSEY, Appellant.
    No. 07-4779.
    United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
    Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) Oct. 27, 2008.
    Filed: Nov. 6, 2008.
    Before: McKEE, NYGAARD, and MICHEL, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The Honorable Paul R. Michel, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   OPINION OF THE COURT

NYGAARD, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Deion Pressey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, heroin. Appellant argued before the District Court that it should sentence him below the Guideline range. The District Court declined and imposed a sentence of 46 months’ imprisonment, a sentence which was at the bottom of the Guideline range.

The Appellant raises only one issue on appeal, namely that the District Court failed to adequately consider and evaluate the statutory sentencing factors, other than the sentencing guidelines, and that this failure resulted in a sentence greater than necessary to accomplish the statutory sentencing scheme. We review a sentence for reasonableness, applying an abuse of discretion standard. Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. -, 128 S.Ct. 586, 594, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). Appellant bears the burden of showing unreasonableness. United States v. Cooper, 437 F.3d 324, 332 (3d Cir.2006).

We have examined the record and the colloquy on appeal, and have concluded that Appellant has not borne his burden of showing unreasonableness. Hence, we conclude that the Appellant’s contention is without merit and we will affirm.