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No. 14-4386
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro. Catherine C. Eagles,
District Judge. (1:13-cr-00359-CCE-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
March 5, 2015
PER CURIAM:
In December 2013, Altise Shaheed Bridges pled guilty
to railroad train robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1991, 2
(2012).
The
district
court
sentenced
Bridges
to
ninety-two
reasonableness
of
Bridges
sentence.
Although
brief.
response brief.
We
The
Government
has
declined
to
review
States,
sentence
for
reasonableness,
file
552
U.S.
38,
41
(2007).
When
Gall v.
reviewing
sentence
is
substantively
reasonable.
United
States
v.
Such a
445
2006)
F.3d
375,
379
(4th
Cir.
(internal
quotation
marks
omitted).
On appeal, Bridges argues that the totality of the
circumstances present in his case establish that the selected
sentence
is
greater
than
purposes of sentencing.
necessary
to
achieve
the
statutory
of
the
record
does
not
reveal
basis
for
such
contention.
Specifically, defense counsel argued for a sentence at
the low end of Bridges Guidelines range relying, primarily, on
two
factors:
(1)
Bridges
difficult
childhood,
which
was
replete with domestic violence, child abuse, and drug abuse; and
(2)
Bridges
productive
relatively
member
of
young
society
age
after
and
hopes
receiving
drug
fully
concluded
acknowledged
that
this
Bridges
did
not
troubled
justify
of
being
treatment,
The district
childhood,
lower
but
sentence,
discern
no
abuse
of
discretion
3
in
the
district
courts
decision
not
Guidelines
to
range
impose
and
sentence
conclude
at
that
the
Bridges
low
end
has
of
failed
the
to
There was no
writing,
of
court
his
requires
right
to
counsel
petition
the
to
inform
Supreme
Bridges,
Court
of
in
the
AFFIRMED