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No. 12-4715
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Wilmington. Louise W. Flanagan,
District Judge. (7:06-cr-00040-FL-1)
Submitted:
March 8, 2013
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Fred Louis Gerth, III, appeals the district courts
judgment
revoking
his
supervised
release
district
court
imposing
and
has
broad
We affirm.
discretion
to
impose
United
We will
it
is
within
the
applicable
plainly unreasonable.
437,
439-40
(4th
statutory
maximum
and
not
Cir.
2006).
In
determining
whether
for
unreasonableness,
follow[ing]
generally
the
supervised
reasonable
Id. at 438.
release
if
the
revocation
district
court
sentence
is
considered
the
18
U.S.C.
3553(a)
(2006)
factors
it
is
permitted
to
18 U.S.C.A.
3583(e) (West 2006 & Supp. 2012); Crudup, 461 F.3d at 439.
Such
sentence
is
substantively
reasonable
if
the
district
receive
the
sentence
Crudup,
461
F.3d
imposed,
at
up
440.
to
Only
if
the
a
statutory
sentence
maximum.
is
found
the
sentence
is
plainly
unreasonable.
Id.
at
439.
Id.
In
this
case,
there
is
no
dispute
that
Gerths
he
contends
that
his
sentence
is
substantively
that
the
twenty-four-month
prison
sentence,
although
is
not
unreasonable.
The
district
court
that
the
court
also
considered
relevant
It is
3553(a)
18 U.S.C. 3553(a)(1),
sentence
Gerths
above
breach
the
of
policy
trust,
statement
despite
range
prior
as
lenient
result
of
treatment.
district
imposing
proper
court
the
adequately
twenty-four-month
considerations
discretion
that
in
explained
prison
doing
district
its
sentence
so.
court
We conclude that
Based
has
to
rationale
and
on
revoke
for
relied
the
a
on
broad
term
of
statutory
unreasonable.
maximum,
Gerths
revocation
sentence
is
not
dispense
contentions
with
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
facts
and
the
materials
legal
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED