US v. Richard Crowder

Filing 920090320

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 08-7608

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. RICHARD DANIEL CROWDER, a/k/a Maleek Simmons, Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Asheville. Lacy H. Thornburg, District Judge. (1:05-cr-00201-LHT-1)

Submitted:

March 17, 2009

Decided:

March 20, 2009

Before TRAXLER, KING, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Matthew Gridley Pruden, TIN, FULTON, WALKER & OWEN, PLLC, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant. Amy Elizabeth Ray, Assistant United States Attorney, Jill Westmoreland Rose, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Richard orders denying Daniel Crowder for a appeals the district of court's filed

his

motion

reduction

sentence

pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) (2006) and his motion for reconsideration of that order. We have reviewed the record and

find the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motions. (4th Cir. See United States v. Goines, 357 F.3d 469, 478 (motion under § 3582(c) "is subject to the

2004)

discretion of the district court"); United States v. Legree, 205 F.3d 724, 727 (4th Cir. 2000). Thus, we affirm the district See United States

court's orders for the reasons stated there.

v. Crowder, No. 1:05-cr-00201-LHT-1 (W.D.N.C. May 28 & Aug. 5, 2008). legal before We dispense with oral argument because the facts and contentions the court are and adequately argument presented not in aid the the materials decisional

would

process. AFFIRMED

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