Filed: Sep. 04, 2013
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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-6560 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. KEVIN MAURICE SMITH, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., Senior District Judge. (1:98-cr-00369-NCT-1) Submitted: August 29, 2013 Decided: September 4, 2013 Before DUNCAN, AGEE, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Kevin Ma
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-6560 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. KEVIN MAURICE SMITH, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., Senior District Judge. (1:98-cr-00369-NCT-1) Submitted: August 29, 2013 Decided: September 4, 2013 Before DUNCAN, AGEE, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Kevin Mau..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-6560
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff – Appellee,
v.
KEVIN MAURICE SMITH,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. N. Carlton Tilley,
Jr., Senior District Judge. (1:98-cr-00369-NCT-1)
Submitted: August 29, 2013 Decided: September 4, 2013
Before DUNCAN, AGEE, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Kevin Maurice Smith, Appellant Pro Se. Robert Michael Hamilton,
Angela Hewlett Miller, Assistant United States Attorneys,
Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Kevin Maurice Smith appeals the district court’s order
granting his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) (2006) motion and reducing
his sentence from life to 360 months. Smith asserts that he is
entitled to a further reduction of sentence based on Amendment
591 to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and because the district
court erred in failing to consider his post-conviction
rehabilitative conduct. We find both arguments unavailing. The
district court applied Guidelines Amendment 750 and reduced
Smith’s sentence as much as possible under U.S. Sentencing
Guidelines Manual § 1B1.10(b)(2) (2012). Amendment 591
“requires that the initial selection of the offense guideline be
based only on the statute or offense of conviction rather than
on judicial findings of actual conduct not made by the jury.”
United States v. Moreno,
421 F.3d 1217, 1219 (11th Cir. 2005).
Because Smith was sentenced under the correct offense guideline
for his convicted offenses, the Amendment entitles him to no
further relief. Accordingly, we affirm the order of the
district court. We dispense with oral argument because the
facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the
materials before this court and argument would not aid the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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