US v. Clintes Jeffries
Filing
920090715
UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 08-4999
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. CLINTES HAILI JEFFRIES, Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Durham. N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., Senior District Judge. (1:07-cr-00431-NCT-1)
Submitted:
May 12, 2009
Decided:
July 15, 2009
Before TRAXLER, Judges.
Chief
Judge,
and
NIEMEYER
and
KING,
Circuit
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Louis C. Allen, III, Federal Public Defender, Eric D. Placke, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellant. Anna Mills Wagoner, United States Attorney, Randall S. Galyon, Assistant United States Attorney, Aaron Goss, Third Year Law Student, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM: Clintes Haili Jeffries was found guilty of violating his federal supervised release for the following violations: (1) failure to make monthly restitution payments; (2) failure to notify the probation officer within seventy-two hours of his arrest; and (3) committing further crimes. Jeffries was
arrested on state charges of Felony Forgery of Instrument and Felony Uttering Forged Instrument and Felony Obtain Property by False Pretense. of imprisonment. violation. We find no abuse of discretion in the district court's finding of guilt for the third violation. Copley, 978 F.2d A of 829, 831 (4th Cir. See United States v. (providing review Jefferies was sentenced to twenty-four months On appeal, Jeffries contests only his third
1992)
standard). condition evidence.
district court need only find a violation of a supervised release by a preponderance of the
18 U.S.C.A. § 3583(e)(3) (West 2000 & Supp. 2009).
We find no clear error in the district court's factual findings, following an evidentiary hearing on the matter, that Jeffries was the person who passed a counterfeit check to the victim. See United States v. Carothers, 337 F.3d 1017, 1019 (8th Cir. 2003) (stating review standard); United States v. Whalen, 82 F.3d 528, 532 (1st Cir. 1996) (same). We do not review a
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district
court's
assessment
of
witness
credibility.
United
States v. Stevenson, 396 F.3d 538, 542 (4th Cir. 2005). Accordingly, argument as the facts we and affirm. legal We dispense are with oral
contentions
adequately
presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED
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