Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
No. 14-4152
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Max O. Cogburn, Jr.,
District Judge. (3:11-cr-00411-MOC-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Phillip
Michael
Thomas
Burton
pled
guilty
to
forty-two
months
months
of
imprisonment,
supervised
release.
to
be
followed
In
December
by
2011,
thirty-six
Burton
was
The court
a twenty-one-month sentence.
the
court
clearly
erred
in
determining
that
Burton
review
district
courts
decision
district
release
by
court
a
the
find
preponderance
3583(e)(3) (2012).
underlying
must
violation
of
the
to
revoke
United States v.
To revoke release,
of
condition
evidence.
18
of
U.S.C.
conclusion
that
2
violation
of
the
terms
of
release
by
possessing
marijuana.
The
Government
likely
Possession
Burgos,
than
can
94
not
be
F.3d
that
actual
849,
or
873
Burton
possessed
constructive.
(4th
Cir.
the
marijuana.
United
1996).
States
v.
Constructive
Cir. 2010); see also United States v. Stevenson, 396 F.3d 538,
542 (4th Cir. 2005) (providing that court of appeals will not
reverse factual finding if district courts view of the evidence
3
Burton
court
category
and
specifically
correctly
whether
the
questions
calculated
court
his
criminal
sufficiently
whether
the
history
articulated
the
sentence
upon
revocation
of
supervised
release.
United
In examining
fact
and
the
exercise
of
discretion
than
reasonableness
478
(internal
F.3d
652,
omitted).
We
656
(4th
will
Cir.
affirm
2007)
revocation
quotation
sentence
that
marks
falls
first
using
the
determine
same
sentences.
procedurally
whether
general
Id. at 438.
or
the
analysis
sentence
employed
is
to
unreasonable,
review
original
substantively
unreasonable
will
Id. at 439.
we
determine
revocation
sentence
is
procedurally
reasonable
if
The
as
is
required
for
an
original
sentence.
United
We have
sentence.
We
dispense
with
oral
argument
AFFIRMED