Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Dennis WHITT, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-03-29
Citations: 644 F. App'x 97
Docket Number: No. 15-1312
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Dennis WHITT, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges, DENISE COTE, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 644
Pages: 97–98

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Dennis WHITT, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-1312.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
March 29, 2016.
Lisa A. Peebles, Randi J. Bianco, & James P. Egan, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Syracuse, NY, for Appellant.
Rajit S. Dosanjh & Lisa M. Fletcher for Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, NY, for Appellee.
PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS, PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges, DENISE COTE, District Judge.
The Honorable Denise Cote, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Dennis Whitt appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Suddaby, /.), sentencing him to 720 months of imprisonment. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history, and the issues presented for review.
Whitt challenges the substantive reasonableness of his sentence. "We review a sentence for procedural and substantive reasonableness under a 'deferential abuse-of-discretion standard.' " United States v. Thavaraja, 740 F.3d 253, 258 (2d Cir.2014) (quoting Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 41, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007)). The district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a below-Guidelines sentence that adequately accounted for the heinousness of Whitt's actions.
For the foregoing reasons, and finding no merit in Whitt's other arguments, we hereby AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.