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12-4828 United States v. Beardsley UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. 1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals 2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United 3 States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, 4 on the 29th day of October, two thousand thirteen. 5 6 PRESENT: RALPH K. WINTER, 7 DENNIS JACOBS, 8 CHESTER J. STRAUB, 9 Circuit Judges. 10 11 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X 12 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 13 Appellee, 14 15 -v.- 12-4828 16 17 WAYNE BEARDSLEY, 18 Defendant-Appellant, 19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X 20 21 FOR APPELLANT: Melissa A. Tuohey (James P. 22 Egan, on the brief), for Lisa A. 23 Peebles, Federal Public 24 Defender, Syracuse, New York. 25 26 FOR APPELLEES: Brenda K. Sannes, for Richard 27 Hartunian, United States 28 Attorney for the Northern 29 District of New York, Syracuse, 30 New York. 1 1 Appeal from a judgment of the United States District 2 Court for the Northern District of New York (Suddaby, J.). 3 4 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED 5 AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be 6 AFFIRMED. 7 8 Defendant Wayne Beardsley appeals from a sentence 9 imposed by the United States District Court for the Northern 10 District of New York (Suddaby, J.), following a guilty plea 11 to receiving and possessing child pornography, in violation 12 of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2252A(a)(2)(A) and 2252A(a)(5)(B). 13 Beardsley was sentenced to 180 months’ imprisonment 14 (concurrent with 120 months for the second charge in this 15 case), lifetime supervised release, and a special assessment 16 of $200. On appeal, Beardsley argues the sentence was 17 substantively unreasonable. We assume the parties’ 18 familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural 19 history, and the issues presented for review. 20 21 We review all sentences for reasonableness. United 22 States v. Cossey,
632 F.3d 82, 86 (2d Cir. 2011) (citing 23 United States v. Booker,
543 U.S. 220, 260-62 (2005)). 24 “[S]ubstantive reasonableness reduces to a single question: 25 ‘whether the District Judge abused his discretion in 26 determining that the § 3353(a) factors supported’ the 27 sentence imposed.” United States v. Jones,
531 F.3d 163, 170 28 (2d Cir. 2008). In answering this question, we “set aside a 29 district court’s substantive determination only in 30 exceptional cases where the trial court’s decision cannot be 31 located within the range of permissible decisions.” United 32 States v. Cavera,
550 F.3d 180, 189 (2d Cir. 2008) (in banc) 33 (internal quotation marks omitted). See also United States 34 v. Rigas,
583 F.3d 108, 123 (2d Cir. 2009) (requiring 35 sentence to be “shockingly high, shockingly low, or 36 otherwise unsupportable” for substantive unreasonableness). 37 38 Beardsley challenges the weight given to various 39 sentencing factors in the sentencing decision, but his 40 arguments are unavailing. The district court properly 41 considered Beardsley’s previous conduct as a juvenile in 42 molesting three other children–-particularly in light of 43 Beardsley’s subsequent conduct as an adult. Beardsley’s 44 objection to consideration of his juvenile conduct in the 2 1 presentence report was waived when he failed to object on 2 those grounds during sentencing. See United States v. Caba, 3
955 F.2d 182, 187 (2d Cir. 1992) (holding defendant’s 4 failure to object to the drug quantity assessment in the 5 presentence report at sentencing was a waiver of the issue 6 on appeal). As to his previous conviction for endangering a 7 child, the court properly focused on the conduct underlying 8 the conviction. Beardsley’s argument that the district 9 court failed to adequately weigh his efforts at 10 rehabilitation are unsupported by the record. The district 11 court simply reached a different conclusion after its 12 review: that the failure of Beardsley’s attempts at 13 treatment evidence his threat to the public. There is no 14 reason to disturb the district court’s judgment here. 15 16 Finding no merit in Beardsley’s remaining arguments, we 17 hereby AFFIRM the judgment of the district court. 18 19 FOR THE COURT: 20 CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK 21 3
Document Info
Docket Number: 12-4828
Citation Numbers: 536 F. App'x 161
Judges: Chester, Dennis, Jacobs, Ralph, Straub, Winter
Filed Date: 10/29/2013
Precedential Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 8/7/2023