US v. Reginald Avent, No. 15-7566 (4th Cir. 2016)

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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 15-7566 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. REGINALD LEVI AVENT, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk. Raymond A. Jackson, District Judge. (2:99-cr-00011-RAJ-1) Submitted: February 5, 2016 Decided: February 25, 2016 Before KEENAN and HARRIS, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Reginald Levi Avent, Appellant Pro Se. Dana James Boente, Acting United States Attorney, Kevin Michael Comstock, Assistant United States Attorney, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. PER CURIAM: Reginald Levi Avent appeals the district court’s order denying his 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) (2012) motion for a sentence reduction pursuant to U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual, App. C. Amend. 782 (2015). reversible error We have reviewed the record and find no because Amendment 782 is not applicable to sentences, such as Avent’s sentence, derived from the career offender provisions in the Sentencing Guidelines. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. States v. 2015). legal before Avent, No. 2:99-cr-00011-RAJ-1 (E.D. Va. United Feb. 27, We dispense with oral argument because the facts and contentions this court are adequately and argument presented would not in aid the the materials decisional process. AFFIRMED 2

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