Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lavelle Tawaine DAVIS, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-09-17
Citations: 18 F. App'x 221
Docket Number: No. 01-4163
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lavelle Tawaine DAVIS, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WIDENER, MOTZ, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 18
Pages: 221–222

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lavelle Tawaine DAVIS, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 01-4163.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 31, 2001.
Decided Sept. 17, 2001.
Jennifer T. Stanton, J.T. Stanton, P.C., Norfolk, VA, for appellant. Kenneth E. Melson, United States Attorney, James Ashford Metcalfe, Assistant United States Attorney, C. Seth Askins, Third Year Law Student, Norfolk, VA, for appellee.
Before WIDENER, MOTZ, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Lavelle Tawaine Davis appeals his fifty-one month sentence imposed pursuant to his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) (1994). Davis was serving a term of probation on a state charge at the time of his firearms offense. As a consequence of his firearms offense, Davis was incarcerated on a state charge for violating the terms of his probation, and he was serving this sentence at the time he was prosecuted in federal court for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The district court held that Davis' fifty-one month incarceration period on the federal charge should run consecutively to his state sentence. On appeal, Davis argues the district court erred in denying his request to have his federal sentence for firearm possession run concurrently with his state sentence for violating the terms of his probation. We disagree.
We review the district court's decision to impose a concurrent or consecutive sentence for abuse of discretion, and we review whether it properly applied the guidelines to a case de novo. United, States v. Puckett, 61 F.3d 1092, 1097 (4th Cir.1995). A district court has authority to make a defendant's federal sentence consecutive to or concurrent with an undischarged sentence previously imposed. 18 U.S.C. § 3584(a); United States v. Rogers, 897 F.2d 134, 137 (4th Cir.1990). In this case, the district court did not err in holding that Davis' federal sentence should run consecutive to his state sentence. U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 5G1.3, comment, (n. 6); Puckett, 61 F.3d at 1098.
Accordingly, we affirm Davis' sentence. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not significantly aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED.