United States v. Tyrell Saunders

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Decided: March 31, 2025
• Docket: 24-6902
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 24-6902

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff - Appellee,

v.

TYRELL SAUNDERS,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Bluefield. David A. Faber, Senior District Judge. (1:15-cr-00242-1)

Submitted: March 27, 2025 Decided: March 31, 2025

Before THACKER and BERNER, Circuit Judges, and KEENAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Tyrell Keoni Saunders, Appellant Pro Se.

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PER CURIAM:

Tyrell Keoni Saunders appeals the district court’s order denying him a sentence

reduction pursuant to Amendment 821 to the Sentencing Guidelines. “We review a district

court’s decision [whether] to reduce a sentence under [18 U.S.C.] § 3582(c)(2) for abuse

of discretion and its ruling as to the scope of its legal authority under § 3582(c)(2) de novo.”

United States v. Mann, 709 F.3d 301, 304 (4th Cir. 2013). Our review of the record reveals

no error. The court correctly determined that Saunders was eligible for a reduction based

on Amendment 821 to the Sentencing Guidelines and clearly understood its authority to

reduce Saunders’s sentence but declined to grant a reduction based on its review of the 18

U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors.

Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order. We dispense with oral argument

because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this

court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED