United States v. Michael Harvey

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

After Michael Harvey violated his supervised release, the district court resen-tenced him to the maximum prison term permitted by the United States Sentencing Guidelines: a consecutive 24 month sentence. Harvey appeals this sentence as a “plainly unreasonable exercise of judicial discretion.” We affirm the sentence.

I. Background

In 1998, Michael Harvey earned five months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing mail fraud and making false statements. After Harvey’s release from prison, he utterly failed to abide by the conditions of his supervised…