US v. Tracie Williams, No. 09-4204 (4th Cir. 2009)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 09-4204 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. TRACIE WILLIAMS, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Charleston. Patrick Michael Duffy, District Judge. (2:04-cr-00848-PMD-4) Submitted: November 19, 2009 Decided: December 1, 2009 Before MOTZ, GREGORY, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Mary Gordon Baker, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellant. Michael Rhett DeHart, Assistant United States Attorney, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Tracie Williams was convicted of conspiracy to pass and utter counterfeit postal money orders and was sentenced to five years of probation. Thereafter, Williams pled guilty to three probation violations, and the district court did not alter her sentence other than to require her to spend three months in a halfway house. Williams timely appealed, and counsel has filed a brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), asserting that there are no meritorious issues for appeal, but questioning whether the new condition of community confinement was unreasonable. Williams was sentenced below her advisory Guidelines range of three to nine months in prison. Moreover, the district court noted its specific reasons for (1) imposing the community confinement condition (namely, Williams repeated probation violations), and (2) declining to impose a prison term (namely, Williams family circumstances and her attempts to find work). We find that Williams sentence was not plainly unreasonable. United States (providing v. Crudup, 461 review standard Accordingly, we F.3d 433, 437 for (4th revocation of Cir. 2006) supervised release). affirm. This court requires that counsel inform her client, in writing, of her right to petition the Supreme Court of the United States for further review. 2 If the client requests that a petition be filed, but counsel believes that such a petition would be frivolous, then counsel may move in representation. was served on this court for leave to withdraw from Counsel s motion must state that a copy thereof the client. 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 3
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