UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 99-4624
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
PATRICK LEON LITTLE,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle Dis-
trict of North Carolina, at Durham. James A. Beaty, Jr., District
Judge. (CR-98-189)
Submitted: March 20, 2000 Decided: April 3, 2000
Before WILKINS, NIEMEYER, and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Walter Thaniel Johnson, Jr., Juanita Boger Allen, Greensboro, North
Carolina, for Appellant. Walter C. Holton, Jr., United States At-
torney, Robert A.J. Lang, Assistant United States Attorney, Greens-
boro, North Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Patrick Leon Little appeals from a 240-month sentence imposed
following his guilty plea to possession with the intent to distrib-
ute crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) (1994). We have reviewed the
briefs and the record and find that the district court did not
abuse its discretion in refusing to permit Little to withdraw his
plea. See United States v. Moore, 931 F.2d 245, 248 (4th Cir.
1991). We further find that, even assuming that a motion for the
appointment of substitute counsel was properly pending before the
district court, the court did not abuse its discretion when it did
not continue the sentencing hearing and appoint substitute counsel.
See United States v. Mullen, 32 F.3d 891, 895 (4th Cir. 1994). Ac-
cordingly, we affirm Little’s conviction and 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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