Opinion ID: 2975571
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Heading: Allen Young

Text: We review a defendant’s sentence for reasonableness, crediting a sentence within the Guidelines range with a presumption of reasonableness. United States v. Williams, 436 F.3d 706 (6th Cir. 2006); Rita v. United States, 127 S. Ct. 2456, 2462 (2007). Reasonableness encompasses -4- Nos. 06-5572/06-5703 United States v. Smith/United States v. Young both a substantive and a procedural component. United States v. Jones, 445 F.3d 865, 869 (6th Cir. 2006); United States v. McBride, 434 F.3d 470, 475 n.3 (6th Cir. 2006). “A sentence may be considered substantively unreasonable when the district court ‘select[s] the sentence arbitrarily, bas[es] the sentence on impermissible factors, fail[s] to consider pertinent § 3553(a) factors or giv[es] an unreasonable amount of weight to any pertinent factor.’” United States v. Collington, 461 F.3d 805, 808 (6th Cir. 2006) (quoting United States v. Webb, 403 F.3d 373, 385 (6th Cir. 2005)). Procedural reasonableness requires that the sentencing court adequately consider the § 3553(a) factors, including a correctly calculated Guidelines range. See McBride, 434 F.3d at 475-76; see also Rita, 127 S. Ct. at 2468 (“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.”). Young confines his argument, quite literally, to four sentences: Under Booker the District Court had the ability to sentence Appellant to a sentence within the guideline range or outside of it. The District Court chose to sentence Appellant to a total of 420 months. Appellant believes that although he should be punished for the acts he committed, he believes that the District Court’s sentence does not fit the crime. In essence Appellant believes that his sentence is unreasonable under Booker. This unusually terse argument implicates the rule that “issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived.” United States v. Layne, 192 F.3d 556, 566 (6th Cir. 1999) (citation omitted). As we presume Young’s within- -5- Nos. 06-5572/06-5703 United States v. Smith/United States v. Young Guidelines-range sentence reasonable, Williams, 436 F.3d at 708, and as Young makes no attempt to rebut this presumption, we affirm.