United States v. Frank Abbott Sweeney, Jr., A/K/A Brendan Shannon, A/K/A Francis August Schellhammer

JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This appeal concerns the sentencing of a defendant for his violation of supervised release, an offense for which there is no applicable sentencing guideline. Defendant-appellant Frank A. Sweeney, Jr. appeals from the December 21, 1995, judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Robert J. Ward, Judge), revoking his term of supervised release and sentencing him to eighteen months in prison. Sweeney contends that the District Court’s sentence is “plainly unreasonable,” the standard of review for a sentence selected in the absence of an…