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No. 09-4403
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence.
Terry L. Wooten, District Judge.
(4:05-cr-00670-TLW-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Pursuant to a plea agreement, Joel Wayne Tadlock pled
guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to
distribute fifty grams or more of methamphetamine and 500 grams
or more of a mixture of methamphetamine, in violation of 21
U.S.C. 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), 846 (2006) (Count One), and
knowingly using and carrying firearms during and in relation to,
and possessing firearms in furtherance of, a drug trafficking
crime,
in
Three).
violation
of
18
U.S.C.
924(c)(1)
(2006)
(Count
imprisonment,
consisting
of
264
months
on
Count
One
and
counsel
has
filed
brief
pursuant
to
Though
district
hearing.
courts
Federal
Rule
of
Criminal
Procedure
11
The
plea
knowingly
and
voluntarily
2
and
that
the
plea
was
652,
659-60
(4th
Cir.
2007).
Accordingly,
we
affirm
Tadlocks convictions.
Counsel next acknowledges that Tadlocks sentence is
reasonable, both procedurally and substantively.
We agree.
51 (2007); see also United States v. Layton, 564 F.3d 330, 335
(4th Cir.), cert. denied, 130 S. Ct. 290 (2009).
Our review of
procedural
calculating
the
steps
in
Guidelines
sentencing
range
Tadlock,
and
properly
considering
that
3553(a)
(2006).
Gall,
See
552
U.S.
at
51.
216, 218 (4th Cir. 2008); see also Rita v. United States, 551
U.S.
338,
347
(2007)
(upholding
rebuttable
presumption
of
for
Accordingly,
any
we
meritorious
affirm
the
issues
district
and
have
courts
found
none.
judgment.
This
his right to petition the Supreme Court of the United States for
further
filed,
review.
but
If
counsel
the
client
believes
requests
that
such
that
a
petition
petition
would
be
be