US v. Galloway
Filing
920070129
Opinion
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 06-4419
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, versus NATHANIEL TYRONE GALLOWAY, Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Durham. William L. Osteen, Senior District Judge. (1:05-cr-00285-WLO)
Submitted: January 25, 2007
Decided:
January 29, 2007
Before WIDENER and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Thomas N. Cochran, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant. Anna Mills Wagoner, United States Attorney, Randall Stuart Galyon, Assistant United States Attorney, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Nathaniel Tyrone Galloway appeals his 360-month sentence imposed following his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (2000), and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) and 924(e)(1) (2000). Galloway's counsel has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), concluding there are no meritorious issues for appeal, but questioning whether Galloway's sentence was reasonable. Galloway
was advised of his right to file a pro se supplemental brief, but has not done so. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.
This court reviews the imposition of a sentence for reasonableness. United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 260-61
(2005); United States v. Hughes, 401 F.3d 540, 546-47 (4th Cir. 2005). After Booker, courts must calculate the appropriate United
guideline range, making any appropriate factual findings. States v. Davenport, 445 F.3d 366, 370 (4th Cir. 2006).
The court
then should consider the resulting advisory guideline range in conjunction with the factors under 18 U.S.C.A. § 3553(a) (West 2000 & Supp. 2006), and determine an appropriate sentence. sentence within the proper advisory guidelines Id. range A is
presumptively reasonable.
United States v. Green, 436 F.3d 449,
457 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 126 S. Ct. 2309 (2006).
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The district court determined that because Galloway was over eighteen years a old and had at least he two was prior felony to
convictions
for
controlled
substance,
subject
sentencing as a career offender, resulting in an offense level of 37 and Criminal History Category VI. See U.S. Sentencing
Guidelines Manual ("USSG") § 4B1.1 (2005).
His advisory guideline See USSG Ch. 5, object to the
range was thus 360 months' to life imprisonment. Pt. A (Sentencing report Table). and Galloway to did the not
presentence
conceded
factual
allegations
contained therein.
The district court imposed a sentence of 360
months' imprisonment, which is within the appropriately calculated advisory guideline range of 360 months' to life imprisonment and is therefore presumptively reasonable. There is no evidence in the See Green, 436 F.3d at 457. that the sentence is
record
procedurally or substantively unreasonable. sentence was reasonable.
We therefore find the
In accordance with Anders, we have reviewed the entire record in this case and have found no meritorious issues for appeal. We therefore affirm Galloway's conviction and sentence.
We also deny Galloway's counsel's motion to withdraw as counsel. This court requires that counsel inform Galloway, in writing, of the right to petition the Supreme Court of the United States for further review. If he requests that a petition be filed, but
counsel believes that such a petition would be frivolous, then
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counsel
may
move
in
this
court
for
leave
to
withdraw
from
representation.
Counsel's motion must state that a copy thereof
was served on Galloway. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal before contentions the court are and adequately argument presented not in aid the the
materials
would
decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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