United States v. Carr

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  No. 01-4740 STEVEN CARR, a/k/a Steven D. Carr, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at Statesville. Richard L. Voorhees, District Judge. (CR-98-246) Submitted: April 9, 2002 Decided: May 17, 2002 Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. COUNSEL Robert A. Ratliff, ROBERTS, SHIELDS, GREEN, LANDRY & RATLIFF, Mobile, Alabama, for Appellant. Robert J. Conrad, Jr., United States Attorney, D. Scott Broyles, Assistant United States Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). 2 UNITED STATES v. CARR OPINION PER CURIAM: Steven D. Carr was found guilty following a jury trial of conspir- acy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (Count 1), two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and aiding and abetting (Counts 4 and 5), and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (Count 6). This court affirmed Carr’s convictions on direct appeal, but vacated his sentence and remanded for resentencing in light of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000). United States v. Carr, No. 00-4001, 2000 WL 1616978 (4th Cir. Oct. 30, 2000) (unpublished). On remand, the district court resentenced Carr to a total of 360 months of imprisonment. Specifically, the district court sentenced him to 240 months on Count 1; five years on each of Counts 4 and 5 to run concurrently to each other and consecutively to the sentence imposed in Count 1; and five years on Count 6 to run consecutively to the sentence imposed in Count 1. We now affirm Carr’s sentence. On appeal, Carr contends that the district court erred in concluding that he was responsible for at least 1.5 kilograms of cocaine base. The district court’s determination of the drug quantity attributable to a defendant is a factual finding reviewed for clear error. United States v. Randall, 171 F.3d 195, 210 (4th Cir. 1999). We have reviewed the testimony and we find no clear error in the district court’s determina- tion that Carr distributed more than 1.5 kilograms of cocaine base, thus assigning him a base offense level of thirty-eight. See U.S. Sen- tencing Guidelines Manual § 2D1.1(c)(1) (2000). Accordingly, we affirm Carr’s sentence. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately pre- sented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED