UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 98-4491
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
versus
CHARLES L. SMITH,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Spartanburg. William B. Traxler, Jr., District
Judge. (CR-96-883)
Submitted: May 19, 1999 Decided: June 25, 1999
Before WIDENER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges, and HALL, Senior Cir-
cuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Donald F. Samuel, GARLAND, SAMUEL & LOEB, P.C., Atlanta, Georgia,
for Appellant. J. Rene Josey, United States Attorney, David C.
Stephens, Assistant United States Attorney, Greenville, South Caro-
lina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
A jury convicted Charles L. Smith of conspiracy to commit mail
fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (1994). Smith was subse-
quently sentenced to fifty months’ imprisonment. On appeal, Smith
maintains that the district court erred in: (1) denying his motion
to dismiss the indictment on the basis that the McCarran-Ferguson
Act precludes federal prosecution in this case; (2) failing to take
corrective action when the Government referred to the entry of a
guilty plea by a co-conspirator; (3) failing to direct the prose-
cutor not to refer to matters outside the record during closing
argument; (4) failing to strike a witness’s testimony; and (5) en-
hancing his sentence for obstruction of justice pursuant to U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 3C1.1 (Nov. 1997). Smith further
claims that the district court’s alleged cumulative errors rendered
his trial fundamentally unfair.
We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error.
Accordingly, we affirm Smith’s conviction and sentence. We dis-
pense 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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