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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 14-4649
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle
District of North Carolina, at Greensboro.
William L. Osteen,
Jr., Chief District Judge. (1:07-cr-00280-WO-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
March 4, 2015
PER CURIAM:
Antonio Taste pled guilty to possession of a firearm
by
convicted
sentenced
to
felon,
180
18
months
U.S.C.
922(g)(1)
imprisonment,
the
(2012),
mandatory
and
was
minimum
406 F.3d 242, 246 (4th Cir. 2005), this court rejected counsels
argument and affirmed the judgment.
arguing
entering
that
convictions
his
four
North
could
no
longer
Carolina
be
breaking
considered
and
violent
States
banc).
The
v.
Simmons,
Government
649
F.3d
responded
237
that,
(4th
while
Cir.
2011)
Taste
may
(en
be
serious
drug
offenses
that
would
still
render
him
an
Accordingly, the
resentencing
that
Tastes
in
July
prior
2014,
the
Massachusetts
district
court
convictions
for
appeal,
Taste
first
alleges
that
the
district
at
any
time
as
directed
by
the
probation
officer
abuse
testing
at
any
time
during
his
term
of
the court will exercise its discretion to correct the error only
if
it
seriously
affects
the
fairness,
integrity
or
public
702 F.3d 882, 884-885 (6th Cir. 2012) (holding that when the
2
assuming
error,
any
improper
F.3d
994,
996
delegation
did
not
affect
(9th
Cir.
2006)
(holding
any
improper
Padilla,
415
F.3d
211,
219-20
(1st
Cir.
2005)
(holding
to
administered
determine
was
not
maximum
number
structural
error
of
drug
and
tests
therefore
to
be
did
not
erred
in
Taste
argues
the
district
court
convictions
for
larceny
from
the
person.
We
2014), cert. denied, ___ S. Ct. ___, 2015 WL 132957 (Jan. 12,
2015).
A
defendant
is
an
armed
career
criminal
when
he
violent
felonies
924(e)(1).
or
Because
serious
drug
Massachusetts
offenses.
conviction
18
for
U.S.C.
larceny
F.3d
117,
conviction
118-20
for
(1st
larceny
Cir.
from
2011)
the
(holding
person
Massachusetts
constitutes
violent
984
F.2d
21,
25
(1st
Cir.
1993)
(larceny
from
the
the
person
was
crime
of
violence
under
the
residual
dispense
contentions
with
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
facts
and
the
materials
legal
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED