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Parties Involved:
Darrell Lavon Smith
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 07-4853

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

DARRELL LAVON SMITH,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern

District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. James C. Dever, III,

District Judge. (5:07-cr-00076-D)

Submitted: February 21, 2008 Decided: February 25, 2008

Before MOTZ and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and WILKINS, Senior

Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Thomas P. McNamara, Federal Public Defender, Stephen C. Gordon,

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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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: 

Darrell Lavon Smith pled guilty to one count of being a

felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

§§ 922(g)(1), 924 (2000). After granting Smith’s motion for a

downward departure, the district court sentenced him to 41 months’

imprisonment, the low end of the advisory guidelines range. Smith

appeals his sentence. We affirm.

We review the sentence to determine whether it is

reasonable, applying an abuse of discretion standard. Gall v.

United States, 128 S. Ct. 586, 590 (2007). We find that the

district court properly applied the advisory guidelines and

considered the relevant sentencing factors before imposing the

41-month sentence. 18 U.S.C.A. § 3553(a) (West 2000 & Supp. 2007).

Additionally, we find that the sentence imposed was reasonable.

See United States v. Johnson, 445 F.3d 339, 341 (4th Cir. 2006);

Rita v. United States, 127 S. Ct. 2456, 2462-69 (2007) (upholding

presumption of reasonableness accorded within-guidelines sentence).

Accordingly, we affirm Smith’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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