United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving physician who gave steroids to professional football players from the NFL's Carolina Panthers, conviction and sentence based on guilty plea to participating in a seven-year conspiracy to distribute and dispense anabolic steroids and human growth hormone, are affirmed over claim that the sentence was unreasonable as the factors the court considered to make up for a deficiency in the 2004 version of the USSG were already accounted for in the sentence recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/02/2007
• Decided 05/10/2007
• Published 05/10/2007

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Allen Bethea Burnside, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of The Federal Public Defender, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Winston David Holliday, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Reginald I. Lloyd, United States Attorney, Jane B. Taylor, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.