UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 18-4149

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

EDWARD LEE LEWIS,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, 

at Charleston. Joseph R. Goodwin, District Judge. (2:02-cr-00042-1)

Submitted: August 24, 2018 Decided: August 28, 2018

Before WILKINSON and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and SHEDD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Christina M. Capece, Federal Public Defender, Jonathan D. Byrne, Research & Writing 

Specialist, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Charleston, West 

Virginia, for Appellant. Michael B. Stuart, United States Attorney, J. Matthew Davis, 

Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, 

Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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PER CURIAM:

Edward Lee Lewis was charged with violating several conditions of his supervised 

release. At a hearing at which Lewis admitted the violations, the district court revoked 

release and sentenced him to 18 months in prison. Lewis appeals. 

“We will affirm a revocation sentence if it is within the statutory maximum and is 

not ‘plainly unreasonable.’” United States v. Webb, 738 F.3d 638, 640 (4th Cir. 2013) 

(quoting United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d 433, 438 (4th Cir. 2006)). The record 

establishes that Lewis was sentenced within the statutory maximum term of two years, 

see 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(a)(2), 3559(a)(3), 3583(e)(3) (2012). The remaining question is 

whether the sentence is plainly unreasonable.

“When reviewing whether a revocation sentence is plainly unreasonable, we must 

first determine whether it is unreasonable at all.” United States v. Thompson, 595 F.3d 

544, 546 (4th Cir. 2010). Only if we find a sentence to be unreasonable will we consider 

whether it is “plainly” so. United States v. Crudup, 461 F.3d at 440. 

A revocation sentence is procedurally reasonable if the district court considered 

the Chapter Seven policy statement range and the applicable 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) (2012) 

sentencing factors. Id. A revocation sentence is substantively reasonable if the court 

stated a proper basis for concluding that the defendant should receive the sentence 

imposed, up to the statutory maximum. Id. “A court need not be as detailed or specific 

when imposing a revocation sentence as it must be when imposing a post-conviction 

sentence, but it still must provide a statement of reasons for the sentence imposed.” 

United States v. Thompson, 595 F.3d at 547 (internal quotation marks omitted). 
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We conclude that Lewis’ sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable. 

The district court considered relevant § 3553(a) factors, and the court was aware of 

Lewis’ policy statement range of 5-11 months. Further, the court provided a sufficiently 

individualized assessment in fashioning the revocation sentence. In this regard, the court 

was particularly concerned that Lewis had demonstrated that he was not amenable to 

either supervision or drug treatment. The court was similarly concerned that the offenses 

of conviction were not minor crimes. We reject Lewis’ claims that the court should have 

considered that he over-served his original sentence, imposed in 2002, because he was 

erroneously determined to be an armed career criminal. Case law and Guidelines 

commentary counsel that supervised release and incarceration serve different ends and 

that detention ordered upon revocation of release may not be decreased by time served in 

official detention other than time spent in detention for the release violation. See United 

States v. Johnson, 529 U.S. 53, 54-56 (2000); U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual

§ 7B1.3(e), p.s., cmt. n.3 (2017). 

We therefore affirm. 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