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Date Created: 2023-07-28 21:01:38.458196+00
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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 22-4083

        UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                            Plaintiff - Appellee,

                     v.

        OMEL MCLEAN, a/k/a Webb, a/k/a Webster Perry,

                            Defendant - Appellant.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at
        Norfolk. Raymond A. Jackson, Senior District Judge. (2:21-cr-00050-RAJ-DEM-1)

        Submitted: July 25, 2023                                          Decided: July 27, 2023

        Before WYNN and HEYTENS, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Mark Bodner, Fairfax, Virginia, for Appellant. Jessica D. Aber, United States
        Attorney, Aidan Taft Grano-Mickelson, Assistant United States Attorney, Richmond,
        Virginia, E. Rebecca Gantt, Assistant United States Attorney, Megan M. Montoya,
        Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY,
        Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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        PER CURIAM:

               Omel McLean pleaded guilty, pursuant to a written plea agreement, to sex

        trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1), and the

        district court imposed a 360-month sentence. In his opening brief on appeal, McLean

        challenged the procedural reasonableness of his sentence and also argued that he had

        received ineffective assistance of counsel. The Government moved to dismiss the portions

        of McLean’s appeal challenging his sentence as barred by the appeal waiver in his plea

        agreement. This Court granted the Government’s motion. The parties have now completed

        briefing on the remaining claims of ineffective assistance of counsel; however, in his reply

        brief, McLean concedes that the face of the record does not conclusively establish

        ineffective assistance of counsel. See United States v. Baptiste, 596 F.3d 214, 216 n.1 (4th

        Cir. 2010).

               Accordingly, we affirm the criminal judgment. We dispense with oral argument

        because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this

        court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

                                                                                        AFFIRMED

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