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No. 13-4946
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Anderson.
G. Ross Anderson, Jr., Senior
District Judge. (8:13-cr-00361-GRA-2)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Gary
agreement,
to
Lee
King,
possession
Jr.,
pled
of
firearm
guilty,
without
and
ammunition
plea
by
months
imprisonment.
On
appeal,
King
argues
that
the
variance.
Specifically,
King
contends
that
his
no
indication
that
it
considered
his
nonfrivolous
Finding no
reasonableness,
we
consider,
among
In determining
other
factors,
Id.
In explaining its sentence, the district court is not
required
to
subsection,
robotically
particularly
tick
when
through
imposing
3553(a)s
every
within-Guidelines
sentence.
or
a
prosecutor
different
presents
sentence
nonfrivolous
than
that
set
reasons
forth
for
in
the
and
States
(internal
explain
v.
why
Carter,
quotation
he
564
marks
has
rejected
F.3d
325,
omitted).
those
328
Such
(4th
an
arguments.
Cir.
2009)
explanation
is
from
explanation
3553(a)
States
[t]he
.
factors
v.
context
both
and
surrounding
whether
whether
Montes-Pineda,
445
it
F.3d
the
did
district
court
so
375,
courts
considered
properly.
381
(4th
the
United
Cir.
2006).
Where the record clearly reveals that the court considered the
parties
arguments
and
relevant
evidence
and
the
case
is
359 (2007).
Although
King
correctly
notes
that
the
district
the
difficulty
of
imprisonment
for
amputees,
the
event,
the
court
analyzed
the
3553(a)
factors
In
before
explicitly
considered
Kings
argument
regarding
the
Lynn, 592 F.3d 572, 576, 585 (4th Cir. 2010) (recognizing that
an error is harmless if it did not have a substantial and
injurious effect or influence on the result (internal quotation
marks omitted)).
Having found no significant procedural error, we next
consider
tak[ing]
the
substantive
into
account
reasonableness
the
totality
of
of
Kings
the
sentence,
circumstances.
United
States v. Yooho Weon, 722 F.3d 583, 590 (4th Cir. 2013).
Such a
when
Montes-Pineda,
445
measured
against
F.3d
379
at
the
(internal
3553(a)
factors.
quotation
marks
omitted).
We
showing.
conclude
that
King
has
failed
to
make
such
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