US v. Samuel Barrington, No. 15-7307 (4th Cir. 2015)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-7307 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. SAMUEL LEE BARRINGTON, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. Catherine C. Eagles, District Judge. (1:12-cr-00197-CCE-1; 1:13-cv-00510-CCE-JLW) Submitted: December 18, 2015 Decided: December 22, 2015 Before AGEE and DIAZ, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Samuel Lee Barrington, Appellant Pro Se. Harry L. Hobgood, Angela Hewlett Miller, Assistant United States Attorneys, Stephen Thomas Inman, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Greensboro, North Carolina, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Samuel Lee Barrington appeals the district court’s order accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge and denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (2012) motion. court granted a certificate of appealability The district on one issue: whether Barrington was entitled to resentencing following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Johnson, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015). error. district We have reviewed the record and find no reversible Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the court. United States v. Barrington, Nos. 1:12-cr- 00197-CCE-1; 1:13-cv-00510-CCE-JLW (M.D.N.C. July 31, 2015). dispense with contentions are oral argument adequately because presented in the the facts We and legal materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 2

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