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No. 09-4576
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Wilmington. James C. Fox, Senior
District Judge. (7:01-cr-00086-F-1)
Submitted:
KING,
Decided:
Circuit
Judges,
and
July 6, 2010
HAMILTON,
Senior
PER CURIAM:
Gary Lee Beatty appeals the length of the 24-month
sentence of imprisonment imposed upon him following revocation
of his term of supervised release.
We affirm.
release
revocation
sentences.
United
States
v.
In applying the
sentences.
procedurally
reasonable
Id.
if
at
the
438-39.
district
court
sentence
is
considered
the
revocation
sentence
is
substantively
Id. at 440.
reasonable
if
the
sentence
after
revoking
defendants
supervised
sentence
should
be
affirmed.
Id.
If,
however,
the
must
then
decide
whether
the
sentence
is
plainly
our
plain
error
analysis,
that
is,
clear,
or
obvious.
In
this
case,
the
district
court
revoked
Beattys
cocaine
and
absconding
from
supervision
by
failing
to
these
factors
yielded
an
advisory
range
under
the
statements,
imprisonment.
and
The
sentenced
district
court
Beatty
to
stated
that
24
months
an
upward
that
Beatty
showed
complete
disregard
for
supervised
release by absconding.
We cannot say that Beattys sentence is unreasonable.
It
is
undisputed
applicable
that
statutory
Beattys
maximum.
sentence
The
falls
district
within
court
the
correctly
abuse
release. 3
See
sentence
as
treatment
Crudup,
and
461
substantively
his
F.3d
absconding
at
440
reasonable
from
supervised
(upholding
in
part
36
month
because
of
and
materials
legal
before
contentions
the
court
are
adequately
and
argument
presented
would
not
in
the
aid
the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED