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Parties Involved:
Michael Edward Carr
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-4586

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

versus

MICHAEL EDWARD CARR,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western

District of North Carolina, at Shelby. Lacy H. Thornburg, District

Judge. (4:97-cr-00274)

Submitted: January 29, 2008 Decided: February 22, 2008

Before NIEMEYER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Claire J. Rauscher, Executive Director, Fredilyn Sison, FEDERAL

DEFENDERS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, INC., Asheville, North

Carolina, for Appellant. Gretchen C. F. Shappert, United States

Attorney, Amy E. Ray, Assistant United States Attorney, Asheville,

North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Michael Edward Carr appeals the district court’s judgment

revoking his supervised release and sentencing him to twenty-one

months’ imprisonment, a sentence at the bottom of the applicable

range based on the non-binding federal sentencing guidelines policy

statement. Carr contends that the sentence is substantively

unreasonable.

We will affirm a sentence imposed after revocation of

supervised release if it is within the prescribed statutory range

and is not plainly unreasonable. United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d

433, 437-39 (4th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 127 S. Ct. 1813 (2007).

In making this determination, we first consider whether the

sentence is procedurally or substantively unreasonable. Id. at

438-39. Only if a sentence is found to be unreasonable will this

court determine if it is “plainly” so. Id. at 439. Although the

district court must consider the Chapter Seven policy statements,

U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual Ch. 7, Pt. B (2006), as well as

the statutory requirements and factors applicable to parole

revocation sentences under 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 3553(a) & 3583 (West 2000

& Supp. 2007), the court ultimately has broad discretion to revoke

the previous sentence and impose a term of imprisonment up to the

statutory maximum. Crudup, 461 F.3d at 438-39.

Although, as Carr contends, the district court provided

no explanation for its sentence, it is undisputed that the district

court properly calculated the applicable range and imposed a

sentence at the bottom of that range. We find nothing clearly or

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obviously erroneous in the sentence imposed by the district court.

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

(defining plainly unreasonable sentence as one that is clearly or

obviously erroneous). 

Accordingly, we affirm Carr’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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