United States v. Merrival

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

After Kevin Merrival violated the terms of his supervised release, the district court 1 sentenced him to 24 months’ imprisonment with no further term of supervised release. Merrival argues that the district court failed to examine factors supporting leniency under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), and imposed a term of imprisonment that is substantively unreasonable. We hold that the district court’s sentence was not an abuse of discretion, and we therefore affirm.

On September 10, 2001, Kevin Merrival pled guilty to one count of distributing cocaine. The district court sentenced…