US v. Wanda Martin

Filing 920091001

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 09-4291

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. WANDA Y. MARTIN, Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Matthew J. Perry, Jr., Senior District Judge. (3:08-cr-00886-MJP-1)

Submitted:

August 27, 2009

Decided:

October 1, 2009

Before NIEMEYER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Parks N. Small, Federal Public Defender, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. W. Walter Wilkins, United States Attorney, Winston D. Holliday, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Wanda Y. Martin, the sole defendant in a twenty-nine count indictment charging wire fraud, in violation of 18

U.S.C.A. § 1343 (West Supp. 2009), pled guilty pursuant to a written plea agreement, to count twenty-two. sentenced ordered Martin to twenty-seven in the which amount Martin months' of The district court imprisonment to in and the its

restitution

$342,991.51 while

charitable employ.

organization

defrauded

On appeal,

Martin alleges that the district court gave

presumptive weight to the advisory guideline sentence range in violation of Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), in rejecting counsel's request to allow Martin to serve her

sentence through home detention, a half-way house, or community supervision. The record simply provides no support for the

assertion that the court improperly treated the guidelines as presumptively reasonable. Accordingly, we affirm the district court's judgment. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal

contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED

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