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Parties Involved:
Terrance Bernard Stokely
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-4371

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

versus

TERRANCE BERNARD STOKELY, a/k/a Boolash,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of North Carolina, at Wilmington. James C. Fox, Senior

District Judge. (7:00-cr-00073-F)

Submitted: October 24, 2007 Decided: November 14, 2007

Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Thomas P. McNamara, Federal Public Defender, G. Alan DuBois,

Assistant Federal Public Defender, Raleigh, North Carolina, for

Appellant. George E. B. Holding, United States Attorney, Anne M.

Hayes, Banumathi Rangarajan, Assistant United States Attorneys,

Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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 PER CURIAM:

Terrance Bernard Stokely was sentenced to twenty-four

months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to violating his

supervised release. On appeal Stokely argues that his sentence, in

excess of his advisory sentencing range, was erroneous. For the

reasons that follow, we affirm.

We do not find that Stokely’s sentence was plainly

unreasonable. United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d 433, 437 (4th Cir.

2006) (providing review standard), cert. denied, 127 S. Ct. 1813

(2007). Although the district court failed to specifically mention

by name the 18 U.S.C.A. § 3553(a) (West 2000 & Supp. 2007) factors

applicable to supervised release, see 18 U.S.C.A. § 3583(e) (West

2000 & Supp. 2007), the court gave reasons for the sentence which

mirrored certain § 3553(a) factors, and sufficiently explained why

Stokely was given a sentence outside his advisory sentencing range.

See Rita v. United States, 127 S. Ct. 2456, 2469 (2007) (noting

that “[w]here a [sentencing] matter is . . . conceptually simple”

and the record makes clear that the sentencing judge considered the

evidence and arguments, “we do not believe the law requires the

judge to write more extensively”); United States v. Johnson, 445

F.3d 339, 345 (4th Cir. 2006) (stating sentencing courts need not

“robotically tick through § 3553(a)’s every subsection” or

“explicitly discuss every § 3553(a) factor on the record”)

(internal quotation and citations omitted). 

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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

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