US v. Timothy Hoard, No. 15-6354 (4th Cir. 2015)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-6354 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. TIMOTHY HOARD, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Charleston. David C. Norton, District Judge. (2:06-cr-00838-DCN-1) Submitted: May 19, 2015 Decided: May 22, 2015 Before NIEMEYER and HARRIS, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge. Dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Timothy Hoard, Appellant Pro Se. Robert Nicholas Bianchi, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Timothy Hoard appeals the district court’s order denying his motion to reduce his sentence. Hoard charges that the district court erred by imposing a consecutive sentence because when his prior state sentence was imposed, the state court judge ordered that it be served concurrently with his future federal sentence. After reviewing the record, we find without jurisdiction to consider Hoard’s appeal. that we are See 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) (2012) (allowing appeals only from sentences “imposed in violation of law”); see also United States v. Davis, 679 F.3d 190, 194 (4th Cir. 2012) (holding that § 3742(a)(1) “does not give this Court discretionary Hoard’s facts jurisdiction sentencing appeal. and materials legal before We to decision”). dispense with review any Accordingly, oral argument contentions are adequately this and argument court part we not a dismiss because presented would of the in the aid the decisional process. DISMISSED 2

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