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Parties Involved:
Timothy Hoard
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-6354

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff – Appellee,

v.

TIMOTHY HOARD,

 Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of 

South Carolina, at Charleston. David C. Norton, District Judge. 

(2:06-cr-00838-DCN-1)

Submitted: May 19, 2015 Decided: May 22, 2015

Before NIEMEYER and HARRIS, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior 

Circuit Judge.

Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Timothy Hoard, Appellant Pro Se. Robert Nicholas Bianchi, OFFICE 

OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charleston, South Carolina, for 

Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:

Timothy Hoard appeals the district court’s order denying 

his motion to reduce his sentence. Hoard charges that the 

district court erred by imposing a consecutive sentence because 

when his prior state sentence was imposed, the state court judge 

ordered that it be served concurrently with his future federal 

sentence. After reviewing the record, we find that we are 

without jurisdiction to consider Hoard’s appeal. See 18 U.S.C. 

§ 3742(a) (2012) (allowing appeals only from sentences “imposed 

in violation of law”); see also United States v. Davis, 679 F.3d 

190, 194 (4th Cir. 2012) (holding that § 3742(a)(1) “does not 

give this Court jurisdiction to review any part of a 

discretionary sentencing decision”). Accordingly, we dismiss 

Hoard’s appeal. 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.

DISMISSED

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