UNITED STATES v. WIGFALL (2018)

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marco WIGFALL, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 17-4455

Decided: January 22, 2018

Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and SHEDD and HARRIS, Circuit Judges. Simon Massie, MASSIE LAW PLLC, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant. Jill Westmoreland Rose, United States Attorney, Anthony J. Enright, Assistant United States Attorney, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Marco Wigfall appeals the district court's judgment revoking his supervised release and sentencing him to 15 months’ imprisonment. Wigfall argues on appeal that his sentence is substantively unreasonable. We affirm.

“A district court has broad discretion when imposing a sentence upon revocation of supervised release. We will affirm a revocation sentence if it is within the statutory maximum and is not plainly unreasonable.” United States v. Webb, 738 F.3d 638, 640 (4th Cir. 2013) (internal quotation marks omitted). “When reviewing whether a revocation sentence is plainly unreasonable, we must first determine whether it is unreasonable at all.” United States v. Thompson, 595 F.3d 544, 546 (4th Cir. 2010). “[A] revocation sentence is substantively reasonable if the court sufficiently states a proper basis for its conclusion that the defendant should receive the sentence imposed.” United States v. Slappy, 872 F.3d 202, 207 (4th Cir. 2017) (alteration and internal quotation marks omitted).

Applying these standards, we find that Wigfall's sentence is not unreasonable, much less plainly so. Accordingly, we affirm the district court's judgment. 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

PER CURIAM:

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.