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No. 14-4601
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. Catherine C. Eagles,
District Judge. (1:14-cr-00038-CCE-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
April 1, 2015
PER CURIAM:
Rickey Lee Miller, Jr., pled guilty to failure to appear
for
sentencing,
in
violation
(b)(1)(A)(ii) (2012).
Guidelines
range
of
18
U.S.C.
3146(a)(1),
at
10
to
16
months
imprisonment,
386
U.S.
738
(1967),
stating
that
there
are
no
the
Millers
district
guilty
sentence.
plea
court
and
reversibly
abused
its
erred
in
discretion
accepting
in
imposing
Miller
did
The Government
We affirm.
not
move
in
the
district
court
to
United States v.
To demonstrate
plain error, a defendant must show: (1) there was error; (2) the
error
was
rights.
the
plain;
and
(3)
the
error
affected
his
substantial
guilty
plea
context,
defendant
meets
his
burden
In
to
but
for
the
district
courts
Rule
11
omissions.
United States v. Massenburg, 564 F.3d 337, 343 (4th Cir. 2009).
Our review of the transcript of the guilty plea hearing
leads
us
complied
guilty
to
conclude
with
plea
the
and
that
mandates
that
the
the
of
district
Rule
courts
11
in
court
substantially
accepting
omissions
did
Millers
not
affect
that the district court ensured that the plea was supported by
an independent basis in fact and that Miller entered the plea
knowingly
and
voluntarily
consequences.
with
an
understanding
of
the
to
reasonableness
standard.
This
Id. at
consider
51.
under
entails
and
we
deferential
appellate
substantive
In
whether
defendants
sentence,
review
it
for
abuse-of-discretion
review
procedural
Millers
reasonableness
determining
the
advisory
consideration
procedural
district
court
Guidelines
of
both
the
sentence.
reasonableness,
properly
range,
of
gave
calculated
the
parties
the
we
the
an
Id. at 4951.
review
it
for
substantive
reasonableness,
within
presumptively
properly
substantively
calculated
tak[ing]
into
Id. at 51.
Any
Guidelines
reasonable.
United
range
is
States
v.
Louthian, 756 F.3d 295, 306 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 135 S. Ct.
421
(2014).
Such
presumption
can
only
be
rebutted
by
Id.
Miller
of
the
record
in
this
case
and
have
found
no
Court
of
the
United
States
for
further
review.
If
this
court
for
leave
to
withdraw
from
representation.
are
adequately
presented
in
the
materials
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED