United States v. Vereen ( 2005 )

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 05-4535
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
LUTHER VEREEN, JR.,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence. C. Weston Houck, Senior District
Judge. (CR-03-271)
Submitted: October 20, 2005 Decided: October 26, 2005
Before NIEMEYER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
James P. Rogers, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant. Jonathan
S. Gasser, Acting United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina;
A. Bradley Parham, Assistant United States Attorney, Florence,
South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Luther Vereen, Jr., appeals from his 262-month sentence
entered following his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute fifty
grams or more of crack cocaine. Vereen contends that the
sentencing enhancement he received for being a career offender is
precluded by the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v.
Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738 (2005).
Applying Booker, we find no sentencing error. To the
extent that Vereen argues that his sentence was unreasonable, the
Guidelines were correctly calculated, and Vereen was sentenced at
the lowest end of the Guideline range. Therefore, we do not find
his sentence to be unreasonable. See United States v. Hughes, 401
F.3d 540, 546-47 (4th Cir. 2005) (holding that sentences post-
Booker would be reviewed for reasonableness).
Accordingly, we affirm Vereen’s sentence. We dispense
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument
would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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