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No. 15-4051
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte. Frank D. Whitney, Chief
District Judge. (3:13-cr-00334-FDW-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Andre Valentino Pierre pled guilty to bank robbery, 18 U.S.C.
2113(a) (2012), and was sentenced to 151 months in prison.
now appeals.
He
Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), raising one issue but
stating that there are no meritorious issues for appeal.
Pierre
We affirm.
not
variance.
address
counsels
arguments
in
favor
of
downward
for a variance, the court found that a sentence at the low end of
Pierres Guidelines range was appropriate. We accord a presumption
of
reasonableness
to
Pierres
within-Guidelines
sentence,
see
United States v. Abu Ali, 528 F.3d 210, 261 (4th Cir. 2008), and
2
See United
We
AFFIRMED