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                           File Name: 15a0413n.06

                                           No. 14-4158
                                                                                       FILED
                                                                                 Jun 05, 2015
                          UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                             DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk
                               FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                              )
                                                       )
       Plaintiff-Appellee,                             )
                                                       )   ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
v.                                                     )   STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR
                                                       )   THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF
OLUFEMI YOUNG,                                         )   OHIO
                                                       )
       Defendant-Appellant.                            )

       BEFORE: GUY, GIBBONS, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

       PER CURIAM. Olufemi Young, a federal prisoner, appeals the sentence imposed upon

the revocation of his term of supervised release.

       Young entered a guilty plea in 2001 in the Western District of Pennsylvania to charges of

carrying a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime and possession of a firearm by a felon.

He was sentenced to 157 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release. His

supervised release term commenced in December 2011. Beginning in March 2013, Young

repeatedly tested positive for marijuana. He admitted that his drug use violated the terms of his

supervised release. A sentencing hearing was held in November 2014. The guidelines range for

the violation was calculated at six to twelve months of imprisonment. The government argued

for a sentence within the range. Young argued that he had successfully started his own business

and asked to be allowed to continue his final month of supervised release. The district court
No. 14-4158
United States v. Young

discussed the seriousness of the violation and the needs to promote respect for the law, to punish,

and for deterrence in imposing a term of imprisonment of twelve months with no additional

supervised release to follow. Young now argues that his sentence is substantively unreasonable.

He states that he required drug treatment rather than incarceration.

       We review a sentence imposed on the revocation of supervised release for reasonableness

under an abuse-of-discretion standard. United States v. Bolds, 511 F.3d 568, 575 (6th Cir. 2007).

A sentence within the guidelines range is entitled to a rebuttable presumption of substantive

reasonableness. United States v. Trejo-Martinez, 481 F.3d 409, 413 (6th Cir. 2007); United

States v. Morris, 448 F.3d 929, 932 (6th Cir. 2006). Young presents nothing that indicates an

abuse of discretion by the district court or rebuts the presumption of reasonableness of his

within-guidelines sentence.    He was given the opportunity to complete drug treatment on

supervised release and squandered that opportunity. Young’s wish for a more lenient sentence is

insufficient to disturb the district court’s judgment.    See Trejo-Martinez, 481 F.3d at 413.

Accordingly, we affirm the sentence imposed below.

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