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No. 14-4097
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, at Roanoke.
Samuel G. Wilson, District
Judge. (7:11-cr-00076-SGW-RSB-1)
Submitted:
GREGORY,
Decided:
Circuit
Judges,
and
HAMILTON,
PER CURIAM:
Richard Jamar Perry pled guilty pursuant to a plea
agreement to conspiracy to make, utter, and possess counterfeit
securities.
appeal,
Perry
claims
that
the
Government
breached
his
On
plea
under
U.S.
Sentencing
Guidelines
Manual
3E1.1
under
additional
USSG
one-level
3E1.1(a),
reduction
and,
under
if
USSG
applicable,
3E1.1(b).
an
The
did
not
object
to
the
Governments
breach
of
plea
agreement
bears
the
burden
of
Under
plain
error
agreement
review,
was
Perry
breached,
must
but
show
also
not
that
only
that
the
the
breach
plea
was
so
66 & n.4 (4th Cir. 1997) (citing United States v. Fant, 974 F.2d
559, 565 (4th Cir. 1992)).
We conclude that there was no error, much less plain
error.
The
district
court
ruled
that
Perry
minimized
and
While
the
Government
responsibility
from
recommendation
withholding
based
upon
an
acceptance
his
of
sentencing
his
to
his
intimately
Thus,
adjustment,
his
did
not
activity
testimony
involved
Perry
because
criminal
not
in
at
the
receive
because
testimony
he
the
was
not
sentencing
conspiracy
an
from
acceptance
objected
regarding
credible
to
his
the
and
hearing,
start
of
to
that,
he
was
finish.
responsibility
PSR,
but
participation
rather
in
the
obligated
adjustment.
to
recommend
an
acceptance
of
responsibility
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
We
legal
AFFIRMED