United States of America v. Alfonzer Shavaar Blanks, a/k/a Showtime

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 24-6754
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff - Appellee,
v.
ALFONZER SHAVAAR BLANKS, a/k/a Showtime,
Defendant - Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at
Wilmington. James C. Dever III, District Judge. (7:20-cr-00117-D-1)
Submitted: February 27, 2025 Decided: March 3, 2025
Before KING and QUATTLEBAUM, Circuit Judges, and TRAXLER, Senior Circuit
Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Alfonzer Shavaar Blanks, Appellant Pro Se. David A. Bragdon, Assistant United States
Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Raleigh, North Carolina,
for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Alfonzer Shavaar Blanks appeals the district court’s order denying relief on his 18
U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for 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 clearly
understood its authority to reduce Blanks’s sentence and recognized Blanks’s
postsentencing conduct, but the court 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

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