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Parties Involved:
Louis Samuels
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 10-6262

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff – Appellee,

v.

LOUIS SAMUELS,

Defendant – Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western 

District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Graham C. Mullen, 

Senior District Judge. (3:91-cr-00033-GCM-1)

Submitted: April 29, 2010 Decided: May 4, 2010

Before MOTZ and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior 

Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Louis Samuels, Appellant Pro Se. 

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Louis Samuels appeals the district court’s text order

denying as frivolous his petition for a writ of audita querela. 

In his petition to the district court, Samuels argued that 

Amendment 709 of the Sentencing Guidelines requires that the 

district court re-sentence him without a career offender 

designation. Despite Samuels’ contentions to the contrary, 

alternative remedies existed by which Samuels should have raised 

the instant claim challenging his criminal conviction and 

sentence. See United States v. Torres, 282 F.3d 1241, 1245 

(10th Cir. 2002) (“[A] writ of audita querela is not available 

to a petitioner when other remedies exist, such as a motion to 

vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.” (internal quotation 

marks omitted)). Accordingly, the district court did not err in 

denying Samuels’ motion. 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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