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Parties Involved:
Steven John Hayes Grant
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 08-4556

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

STEVEN JOHN HAYES GRANT,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western

District of Virginia, at Charlottesville. Norman K. Moon, District

Judge. (3:00-cr-00065-nkm-3)

Submitted: September 24, 2008 Decided: October 16, 2008

Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Larry W. Shelton, Federal Public Defender, Andrea L. Harris,

Assistant Federal Public Defender, Charlottesville, Virginia, for

Appellant. Julia C. Dudley, Acting United States Attorney, Jean B.

Hudson, Assistant United States Attorney, Charlottesville,

Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual (2000).

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PER CURIAM:

Steven John Hayes Grant appeals his sentence of thirtysix months of imprisonment imposed after the district court revoked

his supervised release. We affirm.

On appeal, Grant argues that the district court erred by

failing to adequately explain its imposition of a sentence that is

outside the Guidelines*

 range. He further contends that his

sentence is unnecessary under the circumstances and inconsistent

with any reasonable weighing of the court’s sentencing

considerations. Grant does not contest the district court’s

decision to revoke his supervised release or the district court’s

Guidelines calculations. The Government responds that the district

court’s sentence is not unreasonable.

Because Grant did not object to the district court’s

failure to articulate the reasons for its sentence, we review for

plain error. United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 732 (1993);

United States v. Hughes, 401 F.3d 540, 547 (4th Cir. 2005). In

United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d 433, 437 (4th Cir. 2005), we held

that “revocation sentences should be reviewed to determine whether

they are ‘plainly unreasonable’ with regard to those [18 U.S.C.A.]

§ 3553(a) [West 2000 & Supp. 2008] factors applicable to supervised

release revocation sentences.” We recognized that analysis of a

sentence imposed on revocation of supervised release involves both

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procedural and substantive components. Id. at 438. A sentencing

court must provide a sufficient explanation of the sentence to

allow “effective review of [its] reasonableness” on appeal. United

States v. Moulden, 478 F.3d 652, 657 (4th Cir. 2007) (probation

revocation). The court need not “robotically tick through

§ 3553(a)’s every subsection,” or “explicitly discuss every

§ 3353(a) factor on the record.” United States v. Johnson, 445

F.3d 339, 345 (4th Cir. 2006).

Our review of the record in this case leads us to

conclude that the district court’s reasons supporting its

sentencing decision are sufficiently apparent from the record. We

conclude that the sentence is neither procedurally nor

substantively unreasonable. See United States v. Finley, 531 F.3d

288, 297 (4th Cir. 2008).

We therefore affirm Grant’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

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