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No. 09-4874
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Anderson.
Henry F. Floyd, District Judge.
(8:07-cr-00960-HFF-13)
Submitted:
Decided:
July 5, 2011
PER CURIAM:
Nicolas Morales pled guilty to Count 1 of the second
superseding indictment (sealed) to conspiracy to possess with
intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, fifty
grams or more of cocaine base, and 500 grams or more of mixture
or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.
He was sentenced to 120 months of imprisonment, the bottom of
his advisory Sentencing Guidelines range.
denying
attributed
his
to
objections
him
and
for
to
the
not
amount
sentencing
of
drug
Morales
quantity
under
the
See U.S.
Morales
court
reviews
sentence
for
reasonableness,
Gall v. United
155,
161
(4th
Cir.
2008).
errors
include
range
or
failing
to
consider
the
18
U.S.C.
3553(a)
(2006)
factors.
2009).
The
district
court
must
make
an
individualized
at
51.
The
court
then
considers
the
Gall, 552
substantive
Id.
120-month
sentence
was
statutorily
mandated
minimum
21 U.S.C.A. 841(b)(1)(A)
properly
calculated
advisory
Sentencing
Guidelines
counsel
noted
at
the
sentencing
hearing,
range.
Finally, as
Morales
was
therefore
affirm
Morales
conviction
and
sentence.
This
before
the
court
and
argument
would
not
aid
the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED