United States Fourth Circuit

144-month sentence for conviction of one count of bank fraud is vacated where the district court did not provide compelling reasons to justify the extent of the sentence variance and the circumstances do not warrant such an extreme variance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/27/2006
• Decided 01/16/2007
• Published 01/16/2007

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS, MICHAEL, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  James Barlow Loggins, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant.  David Calhoun Stephens, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Reginald I. Lloyd, United States Attorney, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellee.