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Parties Involved:
Mecca Taurice Evans
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 16-6279

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

MECCA TAURICE EVANS,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

South Carolina, at Florence. Terry L. Wooten, Chief District 

Judge. (4:05-cr-01129-TLW-1)

Submitted: June 23, 2016 Decided: June 29, 2016

Before MOTZ, KING, and WYNN, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Mecca Taurice Evans, Appellant Pro Se. Carrie Fisher Sherard, 

Assistant United States Attorney, Greenville, South Carolina, 

for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Mecca Taurice Evans appeals the district court’s order 

denying Evans’ 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) (2012) motion for sentence 

reduction based on Amendment 782 to the U.S. Sentencing 

Guidelines Manual (2014). Based on our review of the record, we 

conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in 

denying the motion based on the severity and scope of the 

underlying offense conduct. See United States v. Smalls, 720 

F.3d 193, 195 (4th Cir. 2013) (“Whether to reduce a sentence and 

to what extent is a matter within the court’s discretion.”). 

Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district 

court. See United States v. Evans, No. 4:05-cr-01129-TLW-1 

(D.S.C. Feb. 9, 2016). We dispense with oral argument because 

the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the 

materials before this court and argument would not aid the 

decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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