United States v. Daniels ( 1997 )


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  • UNPUBLISHED
    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Plaintiff-Appellee,
    v.                                                                      No. 96-4202
    STANLEY BOBBY DANIELS,
    Defendant-Appellant.
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore.
    Benson E. Legg, District Judge.
    (CR-95-374)
    Submitted: December 19, 1996
    Decided: January 6, 1997
    Before ERVIN and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER,
    Senior Circuit Judge.
    _________________________________________________________________
    Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
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    COUNSEL
    James K. Bredar, Federal Public Defender, Joseph A. Balter, Assis-
    tant Federal Public Defender, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.
    Lynne A. Battaglia, United States Attorney, Patricia A. Smith, Assis-
    tant United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.
    _________________________________________________________________
    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See
    Local Rule 36(c).
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    OPINION
    PER CURIAM:
    Stanley Bobby Daniels escaped from the Federal Prison Camp in
    Cumberland, Maryland, on August 25, 1995, and was sentenced to an
    additional eighteen months imprisonment. He appeals his sentence,
    contending that the district court erred in denying him a four-level
    reduction for escape from a non-secure facility similar to a commu-
    nity corrections center under USSG § 2P1.1(b)(3).* We affirm.
    A four-level reduction in offense level should be given "if the
    defendant escaped from the non-secure custody of a community cor-
    rections center, community treatment center, `half-way house,' or
    similar facility." USSG § 2P1.1(b)(3). We have previously agreed
    with other circuits, however, that federal prison camps are not facili-
    ties which are similar to community corrections centers, community
    treatment centers, or halfway houses. See United States v. Sarno, 
    24 F.3d 618
    , 623, n.4 (4th Cir. 1994); see also United States v. Stalbaum,
    
    63 F.3d 537
    , 540 (7th Cir. 1995); United States v. McCullough, 
    53 F.3d 164
    , 164-65 (6th Cir. 1995); United States v. Cisneros-Garcia,
    
    14 F.3d 41
    , 42 (10th Cir. 1994); United States v. Tapia, 
    981 F.2d 1194
    , 1197-98 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 
    508 U.S. 979
     (1993); United
    States v. Shaw, 
    979 F.2d 41
    , 45 (5th Cir. 1992).
    The sentence is affirmed. We dispense with oral argument because
    the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materi-
    als before the court and argument would not aid the decisional pro-
    cess.
    AFFIRMED
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    *United States Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual (Nov.
    1995).
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