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Parties Involved:
Jean Andrew McKinney
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-4088

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

versus

JEAN ANDREW MCKINNEY, a/k/a Red,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern

District of West Virginia, at Clarksburg. Irene M. Keeley, Chief

District Judge. (1:03-cr-00059-IMK)

Submitted: June 29, 2007 Decided: December 13, 2007

Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

L. Richard Walker, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Clarksburg,

West Virginia, for Appellant. Sharon L. Potter, United States

Attorney, Robert H. McWilliams, Jr., Assistant United States

Attorney, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Jean Andrew McKinney was convicted by a jury of making a

threatening telephone call in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(b)

(2000) and was sentenced to fifty-seven months of incarceration.

We affirmed his conviction on appeal but vacated and remanded his

sentence in light of United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005).

On remand, the district court again sentenced him to fifty-seven

months of imprisonment, the bottom of his properly-calculated

Sentencing Guidelines range of 57-71 months of imprisonment. On

appeal, McKinney raises two issues, whether: (1) the district

court’s resentencing was erroneous in light of McKinney’s age,

health, and criminal history, and (2) a presumption of correctness

for a sentence within the advisory sentencing range renders the

federal Sentencing Guidelines mandatory. For the reasons that

follow, we affirm.

First, the record is uncontroverted that the district

court took into consideration McKinney’s age, health, criminal

history, and other factors at his resentencing. The court also

referred to the factors listed in 18 U.S.C.A. § 3553(a) (West 2000

& Supp. 2007). The court again sentenced McKinney to fifty-seven

months of imprisonment. Under these circumstances, we find the

sentence to be reasonable. United States v. Moreland, 437 F.3d

424, 433 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 126 S. Ct. 2054 (2006). 

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Second, we have held that a sentence within a

properly-calculated advisory sentencing range is presumptively

reasonable. United States v. Green, 436 F.3d 449, 455-56 (4th

Cir.), cert. denied, 126 S. Ct. 2309 (2006); United States v.

Johnson, 445 F.3d 339, 341, 344 (4th Cir. 2006). The Supreme Court

has recently approved of the presumption. See Rita v. United

States, 127 S. Ct. 2456 (2007) (holding that an appellate court may

apply a presumption of reasonableness to a district court’s

sentence that reflects a proper application of the Sentencing

Guidelines). McKinney has failed to rebut the presumption of

reasonableness by demonstrating that the sentence is unreasonable

when measured against the § 3553(a) factors. United States v.

Montes-Pineda, 445 F.3d 375, 379 (4th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 127

S. Ct. 3044 (2007).

Accordingly, we affirm McKinney’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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