United States v. Adams

ORDER

Charles Adams pleaded guilty to failing to register as a convicted sex offender, 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). The district court imposed the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months’ imprisonment, a term that is more than double the high end of Adams’s guidelines range of 46 to 57 months. On appeal Adams contends that his above-guidelines sentence is substantively unreasonable. Because the court sufficiently explained the variance between the sentence imposed and Adams’s guidelines range, we affirm the judgment of the district court.

Adams, as a convicted sex offender, is required to register in…