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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-4588 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. MARVIN RAY WILBURN, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Robert J. Conrad, Jr., District Judge. (3:11-cr-00337-RJC-11) Submitted: February 25, 2015 Decided: March 9, 2015 Before KING and WYNN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam op
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-4588 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. MARVIN RAY WILBURN, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Robert J. Conrad, Jr., District Judge. (3:11-cr-00337-RJC-11) Submitted: February 25, 2015 Decided: March 9, 2015 Before KING and WYNN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opi..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 14-4588
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
MARVIN RAY WILBURN,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Robert J. Conrad,
Jr., District Judge. (3:11-cr-00337-RJC-11)
Submitted: February 25, 2015 Decided: March 9, 2015
Before KING and WYNN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Denzil H. Forrester, DENZIL H. FORRESTER, Charlotte, North
Carolina, for Appellant. Amy Elizabeth Ray, Assistant United
States Attorney, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Marvin Ray Wilburn pled guilty, pursuant to a written plea
agreement, to conspiracy to commit money laundering, in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h) (2012). Based on a total
offense level of 27, and a Criminal History category of VI,
Wilburn’s advisory Sentencing Guidelines range was 130 to 162
months’ imprisonment. The district court imposed a 130-month
sentence. Wilburn noted a timely appeal.
Wilburn’s counsel has filed a brief pursuant to Anders v.
California,
386 U.S. 738 (1967), stating that there are no
meritorious grounds for appeal but questioning whether the
district court adequately considered injuries that Wilburn
sustained in a robbery some years prior to the offense. Wilburn
has filed a pro se supplemental brief raising two additional
issues: (1) whether the factual basis was sufficient to support
his conviction for conspiracy to commit money laundering; and
(2) whether his conviction is invalid because he did not sign
the stipulated factual basis.
Counsel questions whether Wilburn’s sentence is
unreasonable because the district court did not adequately
consider the fact that Wilburn had been shot five times during a
robbery that took place in 2000. This court reviews Wilburn’s
sentence for reasonableness “under a deferential abuse-of-
discretion standard.” Gall v. United States,
552 U.S. 38, 41,
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51 (2007). This review entails appellate consideration of both
the procedural and substantive reasonableness of the sentence.
Id. at 51. In determining procedural reasonableness, this court
considers whether the district court properly calculated the
defendant’s advisory Guidelines range, gave the parties an
opportunity to argue for an appropriate sentence, considered the
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) (2012) factors, selected a sentence based on
clearly erroneous facts, and sufficiently explained the selected
sentence.
Id. at 49-51.
If the sentence is free of “significant procedural error,”
this court reviews it for substantive reasonableness, “tak[ing]
into account the totality of the circumstances.”
Id. at 51.
Any sentence within or below a properly calculated Guidelines
range is presumptively substantively reasonable. United States
v. Louthian,
756 F.3d 295, 306 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 135 S.
Ct. 421 (2014); United States v. Susi,
674 F.3d 278, 289-90 (4th
Cir. 2012).
We find that the sentence imposed by the district court was
both procedurally and substantively reasonable. The district
court properly calculated Wilburn’s sentencing range under the
advisory Guidelines, considered the relevant § 3553(a) factors,
and imposed a sentence within the applicable sentencing range.
The court was fully aware that Wilburn had been shot in a
robbery in 2000, remarking that it was “shocked that after
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surviving five bullets . . . you would go back into the money
laundering business.” Wilburn did not seek a downward departure
based on this factor, nor was he entitled to one. See USSG §
5H1.4 (providing that physical condition “may be relevant in
determining whether a departure is warranted, if the condition .
. . is present to an unusual degree and distinguishes the case
from the typical cases covered by the guidelines.”). According
to the presentence report, Wilburn is in good physical health
and is not under the care of a physician nor prescribed any
medication. Because Wilburn cannot overcome the presumption of
reasonableness accorded his within-Guidelines sentence, we find
that his 130-month sentence is substantively reasonable.
In accordance with Anders, we have reviewed the entire
record, as well as the issues raised in Wilburn’s pro se
supplemental brief, and have found no potentially meritorious
grounds for appeal. We therefore affirm Wilburn’s conviction
and sentence. This court requires that counsel inform Wilburn,
in writing, of his right to petition the Supreme Court of the
United States for further review. If Wilburn requests that a
petition be filed, but counsel believes that such a petition
would be frivolous, counsel may move in this court for leave to
withdraw from representation. Counsel’s motion must state that
a copy thereof was served on Wilburn. We dispense with oral
argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately
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presented in the materials before this court and argument would
not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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