Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christina OXENDINE, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2002-06-11
Citations: 36 F. App'x 511
Docket Number: No. 01-4804
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christina OXENDINE, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 36
Pages: 511–512

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Christina OXENDINE, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 01-4804.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted May 13, 2002.
Decided June 11, 2002.
Carl G. Ivarsson, Jr., Cook, Iverson & Shober, Fayetteville, North Carolina, for Appellant. John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney, Anne M. Hayes, Assistant United States Attorney, Banumathi Ran-garajan, Assistant United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Before LUTTIG, MICHAEL, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished PER CURIAM opinion.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Christina Oxendine appeals her conviction and 33 month sentence for being an accessory after the fact to an interstate kidnaping committed by her brother, see 18 U.S.C.A. § 3, 1201 (West 2000), and aiding and abetting her parents' misleading statements to federal authorities, see 18 U.S.C. § 2, 1001(a)(2) (1994). Oxen-dine challenges the district court's findings supporting a two-level enhancement of her offense level for obstruction of justice pursuant to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3C1.1 (2000), based on her perjury at trial. For the following reasons, we affirm.
At trial, Oxendine testified that on or about February 8, 1998, her aunt contacted Oxendine's family in North Carolina and asked them to drive to Baltimore, Maryland due to an "emergency." Oxen-dine further testified that upon arriving in Baltimore, her aunt instructed her to bail out "Jerry Oxendine," an individual Oxen-dine testified she did not know, who later turned out to be Gerald Moore, Oxendine's fugitive brother. The Government's witnesses, however, testified Oxendine and her family knew Moore was in Baltimore and that he had been arrested on February 6, 1998 for unrelated state charges under an alias. Based on this discrepancy and Oxendine's incredible version of events, the district court found Oxendine committed perjury in testifying in her own defense at trial.
At Oxendine's sentencing hearing, the district court imposed a two-level enhancement for obstruction of justice pursuant to § 3C1.1 because Oxendine deliberately offered false testimony in her defense. Oxen-dine challenges the application of this enhancement, alleging the court failed to make necessary findings in applying the enhancement and that there was insufficient evidence to support it.
Oxendine's assignments of error are meritless. The district court adopted the factual findings of Oxendine's presentence report as its own, which satisfies the requirements of United States v. Dunnigan, 507 U.S. 87, 94-95, 113 S.Ct. 1111, 122 L.Ed.2d 445 (1993) (obliging sentencing courts to make specific findings of perjury before in applying § 3C1.1 enhancements based on a defendant's testimony at trial). See United States v. Haas, 171 F.3d 259, 268 (5th Cir.1999). Furthermore, the findings of Oxendine's presentence report, combined with the Government's uncontested proffer at sentencing and the district court's statements during trial, provide a sufficient evidentiary basis for the § 3C1.1 enhancement. Therefore, we find Oxendine's objections to the enhancement of her offense level for obstruction of justice under § 3C1.1 based on her perjury at trial are without merit.
Accordingly, we affirm Oxendine's sentence and dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED.