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No. 12-4145
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Leonie M. Brinkema,
District Judge. (1:11-cr-00397-LMB-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
October 3, 2012
PER CURIAM:
A federal jury convicted Lady Jacqueline Locotin of
unlawful procurement of citizenship, immigration document fraud,
and misuse of a social security number, and the district court
imposed
an
challenging
eighteen-month
the
sentence.
sufficiency
of
to
first
support
decision
to
acquittal de novo.
(4th Cir. 2010).
whether
there
convictions.
the
that
convictions.
deny
now
evidence
appeals,
and
the
argues
her
Locotin
Fed.
R.
there
is
We
review
P.
motion
Crim.
insufficient
29
district
for
is
substantial
evidence
to
support
the
Id.
Cir.
2010)
and
internal
quotation
marks
omitted).
In order to prove each of the charges against Locotin,
the Government needed to show that she acted knowingly.
2
To
numerous
misrepresentations
and
omissions
in
verdict
and
therefore
that
the
district
court
properly
next
challenges
the
reasonableness
of
her
discretion standard.
(2007).
The
court
reviews
for
significant
procedural
sentence
substantive
procedurally
reasonableness,
circumstances test.
is
within
the
Id.
reasonable,
applying
it
If the court
then
totality
considers
of
the
Guidelines
presumption of reasonableness.
range,
the
court
may
apply
Id.
We therefore conclude
that the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing
Locotins sentence.
Accordingly, we affirm the district courts judgment.
We
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
legal