United States Fourth Circuit

The district court did not commit plain error requiring correction under U.S.S.G. section 5G1.1, by using a sentencing range of 360 months to life imprisonment, instead of the 240-month statutory maximum, as a starting point for a downward departure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2002
• Published 12/16/2002

Judges

• Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Parks Nolan Small, Federal Public Defender, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Mark C. Moore, Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Scott N. Schools, United States Attorney, Alfred W. Bethea, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Florence, South Carolina, for Appellee.