UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 02-4973
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
YUESEYUAN CRUEL,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Greenville. Henry M. Herlong, Jr., District
Judge. (CR-02-858)
Submitted: April 1, 2003 Decided: April 14, 2003
Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and LUTTIG and TRAXLER, Circuit
Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Yueseyuan Cruel, Appellant Pro Se. Kevin Frank McDonald, OFFICE OF
THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Greenville, South Carolina, for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Yueseyuan Cruel pled guilty to making, uttering, and
possessing counterfeit securities drawn on American Federal Bank,
and aiding and abetting, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2, 513
(2000). Cruel was sentenced to thirty months imprisonment and we
affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal. See United
States v. Cruel, No. 02-4305, 2003 WL 115122 (4th Cir. Mar. 14,
2003) (unpublished). One of the arguments Cruel raised in his
direct appeal was that the Secret Service and the district court
lacked authority to adjudicate the matter. Id. Cruel now appeals
from the same criminal proceeding alleging that the district court
erred by denying his motion to dismiss the indictment against him
and his “Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Territorial Jurisdiction,”
on the ground that the district court lacked jurisdiction over him.
Because we addressed and rejected Cruel’s jurisdictional arguments
in his direct appeal, we decline to entertain the issue again.
Thus, we affirm the orders of the district court. We dispense with
oral argument as 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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