Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Tarance Levar HAIRSTON, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-06-22
Citations: 334 F. App'x 589
Docket Number: No. 08-4433
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Tarance Levar HAIRSTON, Defendant—Appellant.
Judges: Before NIEMEYER, GREGORY, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 334
Pages: 589–591

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Tarance Levar HAIRSTON, Defendant—Appellant.
No. 08-4433.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted: June 18, 2009.
Decided: June 22, 2009.
Louis C. Allen, III, Federal Public Defender, John A. Dusenbury, Jr., Assistant Federal Public Defender, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant. Anna Mills Wagoner, United States Attorney, David P. Folmar, Jr., Angela Hewlett Miller, Michael A. DeFraneo, Assistant United States Attorneys, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Apioellee.
Before NIEMEYER, GREGORY, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Affirmed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Tarance Levar Hairston appeals from his 100-month sentence, imposed pursuant to his guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On appeal, Hairston contends that the district court erred at sentencing in determining that Hairston's possession of a semiautomatic firearm thirteen days prior to the date of the offense of conviction was relevant conduct. We affirm.
We review a district court's "relevant conduct" finding under U.S. Sentencing Giddelines Manual § 1B1.3 (2007) for clear error. United States v. Hodge, 354 F.3d 305, 315 (4th Cir.2004). At sentencing, a district court properly may consider offenses for which the defendant has not been convicted, provided they constitute "relevant conduct." United States v. Bowman, 926 F.2d 380, 381-82 (4th Cir.1991). Relevant conduct includes offenses that are part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction. United States v. McAllister, 272 F.3d 228, 233-34 (4th Cir.2001).
Here, the undisputed evidence in the presentence report ("PSR") was that, on January 3, 2007, the police stopped a car in which Hairston was a passenger, and he fled. Officers found two bags of marijuana in the car, as well as a pistol under Hair-ston's seat. On January 16, officers apprehended Hairston, who fled, and found a pistol in the area occupied by Hairston that fit Hairston's holster. On the basis of these facts, the district court concluded that Hairston rearmed himself after the seizure of his firearm used to protect his marijuana.
While Hairston's counsel asserted that the second firearm was obtained after a home invasion in order to protect Hair-ston's family, Hairston presented no evidence at sentencing. Absent an affirmative showing that the conclusions in the PSR are incorrect, the district court is free to adopt the findings therein. See United States v. Terry, 916 F.2d 157, 162 (4th Cir.1990). Moreover, based on the evidence in the PSR, the district court's conclusions that the two offenses were related was simply not clear error. See United States v. Brummett, 355 F.3d 343, 345 (5th Cir.2003) (possession of firearms by convicted felon on three separate occasions within a nine-month period was relevant conduct); United States v. Powell, 50 F.3d 94, 104 (1st Cir.1995) (holding that nearly contemporaneous possession of firearms is relevant conduct in felon-in-possession prosecution).
Accordingly, we affirm Hairston's sentence. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials be fore the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED.