UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT 

No. 08-4681

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff - Appellee, 

 v. 

RUSSELL FLOYD FRESHOUR, 

 Defendant - Appellant. 

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western 

District of North Carolina, at Asheville. Lacy H. Thornburg, 

District Judge. (1:05-cr-00235-LHT-DLH-1) 

Submitted: September 29, 2009 Decided: October 15, 2009 

Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges. 

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. 

David G. Belser, BELSER & PARKE, Asheville, North Carolina, for 

Appellant. Gretchen C. F. Shappert, United States Attorney, 

Charlotte, North Carolina, Amy E. Ray, Assistant United States 

Attorney, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

 Russell Floyd Freshour was found guilty of 

manufacturing and possessing with intent to distribute fifty 

grams or more of methamphetamine and was sentenced to 210 months 

of imprisonment in 2006. This court affirmed Freshour’s 

conviction on appeal but remanded for resentencing. See United 

States v. Freshour, 235 F. App’x 193 (4th Cir. 2007). On 

remand, the court found Freshour responsible for forty grams of 

actual methamphetamine, recalculated his Sentencing Guidelines 

range as 168-210 months of imprisonment, and imposed a withinGuidelines range sentence of 180 months. 

 Freshour again appeals, raising the following issues: 

(1) whether evidence was sufficient to establish by a 

preponderance of the evidence that he manufactured or possessed 

with intent to distribute at least forty grams of actual 

methamphetamine for purposes of sentencing, and (2) whether the 

district court violated his Sixth Amendment rights by increasing 

his sentence by facts and an enhancement found only by the 

judge, which were not pled in the indictment or found by the 

jury beyond a reasonable doubt. For the reasons that follow, we 

affirm. 

 First, we find no clear error in the district court’s 

conclusion that Freshour was responsible for forty grams of 

actual methamphetamine. See United States v. McDonald, 61 F.3d 

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248, 255 (4th Cir. 1995) (providing review standard for quantity 

of drugs attributable to a defendant for sentencing). The 

record reveals Freshour’s extensive manufacturing and 

distributing of the drug over an extended period of time, which 

supports the court’s factual findings on the matter. 

 Second, the district court’s calculation of Freshour’s 

advisory sentencing range and imposition of a sentence within 

the statutory maximum does not offend the Sixth Amendment, as he 

was sentenced below the statutory maximum for the offense with 

no drug weight. See 21 U.S.C.A. § 841(b)(1)(C) (West Supp. 

2009) (twenty-year maximum punishment for an unspecified amount 

of methamphetamine); Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 347 

(2007) (holding that “a court of appeals may apply a presumption 

of reasonableness to a district court sentence that reflects a 

proper application of the Sentencing Guidelines”); United States 

v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 244-45 (2005) (noting that Sixth 

Amendment error occurs where the district court imposes a 

sentence greater than the maximum permitted based on facts found 

by a jury or admitted by the defendant). 

 Accordingly, both of Freshour’s claims fail on appeal 

and we affirm his sentence. We dispense with oral argument as 

the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the 

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materials before the court and argument would not aid the 

decisional process. 

AFFIRMED