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No. 12-4111
LAMONT
KEARNEY,
a/k/a
Adrian
Carlton
White,
a/k/a
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina, at Greenville.
W. Earl Britt,
Senior District Judge. (4:10-cr-00041-BR-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
Mary Jude Darrow, LAW OFFICE OF MARY JUDE DARROW, Raleigh, North
Carolina, for Appellant.
Jennifer P. May-Parker, Assistant
United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.
PER CURIAM:
Adrian
Lamont
Kearney
appeals
his
convictions
of
violation
of
21
month sentence.
U.S.C.
841
(2006),
and
his
eighty-four
are
no
meritorious
issues
on
appeal
but
questioning
his right to file a pro se supplemental brief but has not done
so.
We affirm.
2002).
After
Anders,
we
complete
conclude
that
review
the
of
the
district
record
court
pursuant
to
substantially
complied with Fed. R. Crim. P. 11 and thus did not plainly err
in
accepting
Kearneys
plea.
We
therefore
affirm
Kearneys
convictions.
We
applying
the
review
Kearneys
sentence
abuse-of-discretion
the
procedural
and
for
standard.
reasonableness,
Gall
v.
United
substantive
2
reasonableness
of
the
sentence.
Cir.
2010).
correctly
After
calculated
determining
the
whether
advisory
the
Guidelines
district
range,
court
we
must
Lynn, 592
F.3d at 575-76; United States v. Carter, 564 F.3d 325, 330 (4th
Cir. 2009).
first
procedurally
enhancement
conclude
reasonable.
in
his
that
Kearneys
Kearney
offense
level
received
for
sentence
a
obstruction
is
two-level
of
justice
That
his
levels.
This
provision
evidence
during
an
material hindrance.
offense
arrest
level
applies
if
that
shall
when
be
a
increased
defendant
destruction
by
two
destroys
amounts
to
United States v.
object
to
the
enhancement
3
at
sentencing,
his
claim
is
reviewed
for
plain
error.
Lynn,
592
F.3d
at
576-77.
We
conclude that the district court did not plainly err in imposing
the
obstruction
district
enhancement.
courts
We
calculation
further
of
conclude
Kearneys
that
criminal
the
history
Additionally, Kearneys
United
States v. Powell, 650 F.3d 388, 395 (4th Cir.), cert. denied,
132
S.
within
Ct.
a
350
(2011)
(this
properly-calculated
court
presumes
Guidelines
that
range
is
sentence
reasonable).
the
extent
assistance
demonstrated
such
Kearney
of
seeks
counsel,
he
ineffectiveness.
to
raise
has
The
not
claim
the
issue
of
conclusively
is
thus
not
F.3d 233, 239 (4th Cir. 2006); see also United States v. King,
119 F.3d 290, 295 (4th Cir. 1997) ([I]t is well settled that a
claim of ineffective assistance should be raised in a 28 U.S.C.
2255
appeal,
motion
unless
in
the
the
district
record
court
rather
conclusively
than
shows
on
direct
ineffective
have reviewed the entire record in this case and have found no
meritorious issues for appeal.
convictions
and
sentence.
This
4
court
requires
that
counsel
of
the
United
States
for
further
review.
If
Kearney
Counsels
contentions
the
court
are
adequately
and
argument
presented
would
not
in
aid
the
the
materials
decisional
process.
AFFIRMED