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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

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No. 16-13395

Non-Argument Calendar

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D.C. Docket No. 3:15-cr-00009-CAR-CHW-1

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee,

versus

SADARREVIN KENDRICK, 

Defendant-Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Middle District of Georgia

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(August 30, 2017)

Before WILSON, MARTIN, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM: 

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Sadarrevin Kendrick appeals his 84-month sentence after pleading guilty to 

one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 

§§ 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2). On appeal, Kendrick argues that the district court erred in 

refusing to allow him to present hearsay evidence at his sentencing hearing, and in

applying a two-level enhancement for obstruction of justice. We affirm.

I.

Kendrick’s sentence was enhanced because he was a felon in possession of a 

firearm in proximity to drugs and drug paraphernalia. At sentencing, Kendrick 

presented testimony by Gregory Blackman, an investigator with the Federal 

Defender’s Office, who worked with Kendrick’s attorney in preparation for the 

sentencing hearing. But the court did not permit Blackman to testify about the 

contents of a telephone conversation he had with a person who might have 

corroborated Kendrick’s explanation for having a firearm in his possession when 

he was arrested. Kendrick testified that he received the gun from a kid he was 

mentoring through church and that he intended to give it to his grandfather to be

sold; Blackman would testify that the kid’s mother corroborated Kendrick’s

explanation. Kendrick argues that the district court abused its discretion in 

refusing to allow Blackman to testify about this conversation he had with the kid’s 

mother, who was unavailable to testify herself.

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“[S]entencing judges exercise a wide discretion in the types of evidence they 

may consider when imposing sentence,” and “highly relevant—if not essential—to 

the selection of an appropriate sentence is the possession of the fullest information 

possible concerning the defendant’s life and characteristics.” Pepper v. United 

States, 562 U.S. 476, 480, 131 S. Ct. 1229, 1235 (2011) (internal quotation marks 

omitted); see also 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (“No limitation shall be placed on the 

information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person 

convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and 

consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence.”). The district court 

did not abuse its discretion in excluding Blackman’s testimony because it did not 

have sufficient indicia of reliability. The mother’s last name and address were 

unknown, she was not subject to cross-examination, and the court did not find the 

testimony to be credible evidence. Moreover, the sentencing court permitted 

another witness who had been present for the “entire [phone] conversation” to 

testify about the content of the conversation.

II.

Kendrick next argues that the district court erred in applying a two-level 

enhancement for obstruction of justice under § 3C1.1 of the Sentencing Guidelines. 

We review for clear error a district court’s factual findings during sentencing and 

review de novo the court’s application of the factual findings to the Sentencing 

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Guidelines. United States v. Bradberry, 466 F.3d 1249, 1253 (11th Cir. 2006)

(per curiam). The district court found obstruction of justice based on Kendrick’s 

conflicting testimonies about how he obtained the firearm. The government 

presented testimony at the sentencing hearing that Kendrick had previously told an 

officer that he bought the gun off the street, did not know the man he had bought it 

from, and was planning to sell it to his cousin, all of which Kendrick either 

admitted to lying about or claimed not to remember. Kendrick argues that any 

inconsistency is either immaterial or reconcilable. However, the inconsistencies in 

Kendrick’s statements are material—he lied about how he came to possess the 

firearm, the possession for which he was convicted—and irreconcilable—he lied 

about from whom and for what reason he purchased the firearm. The district court 

did not err in applying the two-level enhancement.

AFFIRMED.

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