Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Rallen Ryan MARSHALL, also known as Cat, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-06-09
Citations: 690 F. App'x 279
Docket Number: No. 16-60711 Summary Calendar
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Rallen Ryan MARSHALL, also known as Cat, Defendant-Appellant
Judges: Before KING, DENNIS, and COSTA, Circuit Judges
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 690
Pages: 279–280

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Rallen Ryan MARSHALL, also known as Cat, Defendant-Appellant
No. 16-60711 Summary Calendar
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Filed June 9, 2017
Susan Spears Bradley, Esq., Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Gregory Scott Park, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Northern District of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for Defendant-Appellant
Before KING, DENNIS, and COSTA, Circuit Judges

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Rallen Ryan Marshall appeals the 48-month above-guidelines sentence imposed following the revocation of his supervised release. He argues that the sentence is substantively unreasonable based upon the mitigation arguments that he raised during the revocation hearing. With respect to his supervised release violation of traveling outside the district without permission, he contends that he left the district because he was being threatened by his co-defendants and gang members. With respect to his supervised release violation of being charged with cruelty to a juvenile, he argues that, while he committed the offense against his girlfriend's four-year-old son, he does not remember committing the offense. He also contends that he took care of his girlfriend's children like they were his own children and that he has no history of violence or child abuse.
We review Marshall's substantive reasonableness challenge under the "plainly unreasonable" standard. See United States v. Miller, 634 F.3d 841, 843 (5th Cir. 2011). Marshall's mitigation arguments, which were considered by the district court, essentially amount to a disagreement with the district court's balancing of the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) sentencing factors, which we will not reweigh. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed,2d 445 (2007); United States v. Warren, 720 F.3d 321, 332 & n.2 (5th Cir. 2013). Moreover, we have "routinely upheld revocation sentences exceeding the recommended range, even where the sentence is the statutory maximum." See Warren, 720 F.3d at 332 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted); see also United States v. Kippers, 685 F.3d 491, 500-01 (5th Cir. 2012). Accordingly, the district court's judgment is AFFIRMED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R, 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.