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No. 14-4725
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. James A. Beaty, Jr.,
Senior District Judge. (1:14-cr-00053-JAB-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Ricky
Gunter
appeals
from
his
conviction
and
220-month
for
appeal
reasonableness
of
but
Gunters
questioning
sentence.
Gunter
the
substantive
filed
pro
se
We affirm.
While counsel
the district court did not adequately take into account the goal
of rehabilitation and the overcrowding of prisons.
We review sentences for substantive reasonableness under a
deferential
abuse-of-discretion
standard,
considering
the
590
(4th
Cir.
2013).
Because
there
is
range
of
resist
the
sentences
temptation
and
judgment
so
rather
long
to
pick
must
as
it
and
defer
falls
choose
to
the
within
the
among
possible
district
realm
court's
of
these
In addition, the
factors.
Because
Gunter
has
failed
to
rebut
the
decline
ineffective.
to
reach
Gunters
claim
that
counsel
was
be
raised
in
motion
brought
United States v.
pursuant
to
28
U.S.C.
Cir. 2010).
accordance
in
this
meritorious
with
case
grounds
Anders,
and
for
have
we
found
appeal.
have
reviewed
no
other
Accordingly,
we
the
entire
potentially
affirm
the
of
the
United
States
for
further
review.
If
Gunter
for
leave
to
withdraw
from
representation.
Counsels
with
contentions
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
the
facts
We
and
legal
materials
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED