Opinion
22-6677
10-21-2022
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DEANDRE SCOTT ESTELLE, a/k/a Dre, Defendant-Appellant.
Deandre Scott Estelle, Appellant Pro Se. Jennifer Therese Conklin, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellee.
UNPUBLISHED
Submitted: October 18, 2022
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Wheeling. John Preston Bailey, District Judge. (5:12-cr-00020-JPB-JPM-6)
Deandre Scott Estelle, Appellant Pro Se.
Jennifer Therese Conklin, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellee.
Before WYNN and THACKER, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM.
Deandre Scott Estelle filed an 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) motion for compassionate release, which the district court denied. Estelle later filed an emergency motion seeking reconsideration of the denial of his request for compassionate release. The district court denied this motion. Estelle appeals the denial of both motions. We affirm.
"[T]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not apply to motions under § 3582," because § 3582 motions are "criminal in nature," United States v. Goodwyn, 596 F.3d 233, 235 n.* (4th Cir. 2010) (emphasis omitted), and there are no federal statutes or rules that authorize a motion for reconsideration in the criminal sentencing context, see id. at 235-36. We therefore conclude that the district court erred in treating Estelle's postjudgment motion as a motion for reconsideration rather than a renewed motion for compassionate release.
The error, however, was not prejudicial because the district court-which considered Estelle's arguments and set forth its reasoned bases for decision-did not abuse its discretion in finding that the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors weighed against granting his requests for relief. See United States v. Kibble, 992 F.3d 326, 329, 331-32 &n.3 (4th Cir.) (per curiam) (stating that district court's denial of compassionate release motion is reviewed for abuse of discretion and that district courts are to consider relevant § 3553(a) factors), cert. denied, 142 S.Ct. 383 (2021); United States v. High, 997 F.3d 181, 188-91 (4th Cir. 2021) (discussing amount of explanation required for denial of compassionate release motion). Accordingly, we affirm the district court's orders. United States v. Estelle, No.-5:12-cr-00020-JPB-JPM-6 (N.D. W.Va. Apr. 19 &May 27, 2022). 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.