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No. 10-4901
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro.
N. Carlton Tilley,
Jr., Senior District Judge. (1:92-cr-00222-NCT-1)
Submitted:
May 5, 2011
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Samuel Melvin, Sr., appeals from the district courts
imposition of a twelve-month sentence following revocation of
his supervised release.
Finding no
sentence
should
statutory
be
maximum
imposed
after
affirmed
and
is
if
it
not
revocation
is
plainly
within
of
supervised
the
applicable
unreasonable.
United
this
determination,
sentence is unreasonable.
we
first
Id. at 438.
consider
whether
In
the
generally
the
procedural
and
substantive
considerations
that
some
unique
necessary
nature
of
modifications
supervised
to
release
take
into
revocation
account
the
sentences.
at
439.
Only
if
sentence
is
found
procedurally
or
plainly
unreasonable.
[T]he
Id.
court
ultimately
has
imposing
sentence,
the
Id.
district
court
must
The
need
revocation
not
be
sentence
as
detailed
as
post-conviction sentence.
544,
547
(4th
Cir.
2010)
it
or
must
specific
be
when
when
imposing
imposing
a
a
that
district
courts
In fact,
afford[ed
to]
district
courts
when
imposing
these
conclude
that
Melvins
revocation
sentence
Id.
was
It is clear
Melvins
Despite
inability
Melvins
to
conform
allegations
to
his
the
actions
to
contrary,
the
we
law.
further
conclude that the court did not cede sentencing authority to the
probation
officer.
Instead,
the
court
merely
requested
the
court
are
adequately
and
argument
presented
would
not
in
aid
the
the
materials
decisional
process.
AFFIRMED