Unpublished
Unpublished
No. 09-5187
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.
James C. Dever III,
District Judge. (2:06-cr-00023-D-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Cecil Dean White appeals from his twenty-four month
sentence imposed pursuant to the revocation of his supervised
release.
On
appeal,
White
asserts
that
his
sentence
is
excessive
violations,
weight
and
to
failed
the
to
provide
sentence
should
statutory
be
maximum
after
affirmed
is
severity
sufficiently
of
compelling
if
it
not
revocation
is
plainly
within
of
supervised
the
applicable
unreasonable.
United
this
determination,
sentence is unreasonable.
the
We affirm.
imposed
and
exaggerated
we
first
Id. at 438.
consider
whether
In
the
the
procedural
substantive
considerations
that
some
unique
necessary
nature
of
modifications
supervised
to
release
take
into
revocation
account
the
sentences.
sentence
procedurally
Chapter
imposed
reasonable
Seven
policy
if
upon
the
revocation
district
statements
and
of
court
the
18
considered
U.S.C.
of
release
is
release
is
the
3553(a)
See 18 U.S.C.
substantively
reasonable
if
the
should
receive
sentence
sentence
is
is
sentence
imposed,
statutory maximum.
the
the
not
found
unreasonable.
procedurally
Id.
or
up
to
the
We will affirm if
at
439.
substantively
Only
if
unreasonable
Id.
imposing
sentence,
the
district
court
must
to
revocation
hearings;
however,
court
need
not
be
as
be
when
imposing
post-conviction
sentence.
United
White
did
not
request
sentence
different
See United
States
v.
Lynn,
592
F.3d
572,
580
(4th
Cir.
2010).
To
the
error
was
plain,
substantial rights.
249
(4th
Cir.
correction
that
the
error
affected
his
2007).
of
and
the
Even
error
if
White
remains
makes
within
this
[the
showing,
courts]
. . . unless
and
citation
omitted).
In
the
context,
an
factors
that
arriving at a sentence.
Whites
continuing
it
was
permitted
to
consider
when
criminal
conduct,
the
leniency
of
the
probation officer and the court in the past, the need to deter
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future
violations,
while
on
In
addition,
the
Whites
court
unsatisfactory
recommended
that
conduct
White
receive
substance
abuse treatment.
Moreover,
claims he raises.
White
faces
very
heavy
burden
on
the
sentence
is
plainly
White
addition,
has
flatly
because
his
if
it
unreasonable
failed
to
make
such
sentence
is
reviewed
a
for
showing.
plain
In
error,
Even
assuming
rational
minds
could
differ
on
sentencing
error
was
so
egregious
that
it
called
into
We dispense
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
5
adequately
presented
in
the
materials
before
the
court
and