United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession sentence is vacated, where the District Court failed to state any particularized basis to support its chosen sentence, and thus the Court of Appeals could not uphold the sentence as procedurally reasonable or determine its substantive reasonableness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/27/2009
• Published 04/27/2009

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jennifer P. May-Parker, Office of the United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Terry F. Rose, Smithfield, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  George E.B. Holding, United States Attorney, Anne M. Hayes, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.