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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION
                                File Name: 04a0060n.06
                                Filed: November 1, 2004

                                           No. 03-1948

                          UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                          )
                                                   )
       Plaintiff-Appellee                          )
                                                   )
v.                                                 )    ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
                                                   )    STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
LEONARD McCALL,                                    )    EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
                                                   )
       Defendant-Appellant                         )
                                                   )
                                                   )

BEFORE:        MERRITT, DAUGHTREY and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.

       PER CURIAM. This appeal from a judgment revoking the federal term of supervised

release of the defendant, McCall, raises the question of whether due process forbids a delay in the

issuance of a warrant for violation of supervised release while the defendant remains in state

custody. McCall concededly violated his federal parole in connection with the state crime of

receiving and concealing stolen property for which he was sentenced to state custody. The U.S.

Probation Office requested issuance of a parole violations warrant on November 8, 2001. The

warrant was not served until June 6, 2003, when McCall was released by the state. A hearing was

conducted thereafter. McCall argues that this delay violates due process. U.S. v. Throneburg, 87
F.3d 851, 853 (6th Cir. 1996), rejects this very argument in a case in which there was a delay of two
No. 03-1948
United States v. McCall

years while the defendant served his state term for a crime which gave rise to the federal parole

violation.

       McCall also argues that the record below supports a finding that the District Judge was

unfamiliar with the federal sentencing guidelines and did not know that the guidelines are advisory

only with respect to sentencing for parole violations. To the contrary, McCall’s own lawyer advised

the District Court at Appendix page 69 that the guideline range is advisory only.

       Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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