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No. 12-5050
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro.
N. Carlton Tilley,
Jr., Senior District Judge. (1:12-cr-00157-NCT-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Anthony Gilmer Epperson pled guilty to one count of
producing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251(a),
(e)
(2006).
He
imprisonment.
was
He
sentenced
appeals,
to
term
contending
that
of
250
he
months
was
denied
the
imposing
defendant
sentence,
personally
the
in
court
order
must
to
permit
.
the
[m]erely
opportunity to speak.
affording
the
Defendant's
counsel
the
249 (4th Cir. 2007) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also
United
States v.
Stuver,
845
F.2d
73,
74
(4th
Cir.
1988)
Because Epperson
did
district
not
object
regarding
allocution
in
the
court,
record
discloses
that
Epperson
was
provided
an
While
an
court
abuse
reviews
of
sentence
discretion
for
standard.
reasonableness,
Gall
v.
United
error.
In
the
we
next
Id.
Substantive
the
reasonableness
absence
is
of
such
determined
error,
by
considering
range,
reasonableness.
this
court
applies
presumption
of
The
within-Guidelines
sentence
is
both
we
with
contentions
are
affirm
oral
the
district
argument
adequately
courts
because
presented
in
the
the
judgment.
facts
We
and
legal
materials
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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