United States v. Earnest Oliver Hearing, Jr.

Earnest Oliver Hearing, Jr., appeals his 180-month sentence imposed following his guilty plea for knowingly and intentionally possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), (Count One), and knowingly possessing an unregistered silencer, in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5841, 5861(d), and 5871, (Count Eight).

The instant case was initiated following Hearing’s arrests on state charges on July 30, 2004, in Clayton County, Georgia, and on August 16, 2004, in Henry County, Georgia. As a result of Hearing’s July 2004 arrest, he pled guilty in state…