Case Name: UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Donald GLENN, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-11-04
Citations: 629 F. App'x 150
Docket Number: No. 14-3750-cr
Parties: UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Donald GLENN, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Present: ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Chief Judge, ROSEMARY S. POOLER, DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 629
Pages: 150–151

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Donald GLENN, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 14-3750-cr.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Nov. 4, 2015.
Avi M. Perry and Sandra S. Glover, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Appellee.
John D. Maxwell and Cody N. Guarnieri, Brown, Paindiris & Scott, LLP, Hartford, CT, for Defendant-Appellant.
Present: ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Chief Judge, ROSEMARY S. POOLER, DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Defendant-appellant Donald Glenn appeals a September 24, 2014 judgment of conviction and sentence entered by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Bryant, J.). Following the defendant's guilty plea on June 16, 2014, to one count of bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 and one count of escape from custody in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 751(a), the district court sentenced Glenn to, inter alia, 55 months' imprisonment, nine months above the top of his Sentencing Guidelines range of 37-46 months, followed by five years of supervised release. The defendant now challenges the procedural reasonableness of his sentence, as an above-Guidelines sentence without sufficient justification on the record. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts, procedural history, and issues presented for review.
Because the defendant did not raise this challenge to his sentence before the district court, this Court reviews his unpre-served challenge for plain error. United States v. Villafuerte, 502 F.3d 204, 207 (2d Cir.2007). Under Rule 52(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, plain error review permits relief only where (1) there is "error," (2) the error "is plain," (3) the error "affect[s] substantial rights," and (4) the error "seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings." United States v. Groysman, 766 F.3d 147, 155 (2d Cir.2014) (quoting Johnson v. United States, 520 U.S. 461, 466-67, 117 S.Ct. 1544, 137 L.Ed.2d 718 (1997)). Under this standard, we conclude there is .no error.
A sentence is procedurally unreasonable if the district court, inter alia, "fails adequately to explain the chosen sentence." United States v. Robinson, 702 F.3d 22, 38 (2d Cir.2012). The district court must (1) generally "state in open court the reasons for its imposition of the particular sentence," 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and (2) where the court imposes a sentence outside the applicable Guidelines range, as it did here, it must state the reason for the variance, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c)(2). However, such statements need not be exhaustive. "The appropriateness of brevity or length, conciseness or detail, when to write, what to say, depends upon [the] circumstances." Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, 356, 127 S.Ct. 2456, 168 L.Ed.2d 203 (2007). "The sentencing judge should set forth enough to satisfy the appellate court that he has considered the parties' arguments and has a reasoned basis for exercising his own legal decisionmaking authority." Id.
Here, the district court's imposition of an above-Guidelines sentence is consistent with case law in this circuit recognizing that an upward variance from a defendant's Guidelines range is warranted where the range underrepresents the defendant's criminal history and importantly, likelihood of recidivism. See, e.g., United States v. Fairclough, 439 F.3d 76, 81 (2d Cir.2006) (per curiam). Here, the court specifically found that the defendant was a "particularized recidivist insisting upon conducting himself in the exact same criminal predatory, narcissistic, selfish manner over and over again notwithstanding all that society has attempted to do or equip him to do" and that "[t]here is no doubt that the community needs to be protected from him and there is no doubt that he poses a very high risk of recidivism." Gov't App. 77. Such an explanation satisfies the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) generally as well as 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c)(2) specifically. Given the defendant's criminal history, which included pri- or federal convictions for bank fraud and nineteen convictions overall, this court is satisfied that the sentencing judge acted with "a reasoned basis." Rita, 551 U.S. at 356, 127 S.Ct. 2456.
We have considered all of the defendant-appellant's remaining arguments, and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, for the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.