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*1 Before HULL, MARTIN and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Thе prior opinion of the panel is vacated and the following opinion is issued *2 in its place:
Christopher Jackson pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 545, and 2320(a) and was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment to be followed by 3 years of supervised release. After he was released from prison, Jackson violated several conditions of his supervised release. Jackson failed to comply with the orders of his probation officer, admitted to smoking marijuana, and made threats to an official at the Georgia Dеpartment of Revenue and his probation officer. Based on these violations, the probation office petitioned the district court to revoke Jackson’s supervised release. At the revocation hearing Jackson stipulated tо the violations and explained that the more serious violations–his threats against state and federal officers–were the result of his anger management problems. The district court revoked Jackson’s supervised release and remanded him to prison for a term of 21 months. Jackson appeals from the revocation and argues that the district court erred by not verifying thаt he and his counsel had read and discussed the probation office’s revocation report and that his term of imprisonment is substantively unreasonable.
I.
We review a term of imprisonment imposed following revocation for
reasonableness.
United States v. Sweeting
,
II.
Jackson argues that his “sentence” is procedurally unreasonable because the district court erred by not verifying that he and his counsel had read and discussed the probation office’s revocation reрort. The crux of Jackson’s argument is this: [1]
the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure that governs an initial sentencing also appliеs to supervised-release-revocation hearings. We disagree.
Rule 32, which governs sentencing procedure, requires that the probation
office create a presentence report and, at sentencing, a district court must verify
that the defendant and his counsel have read and discussed that report. Fed. R.
Crim. P. 32. Rule 32.1—the rule of criminal procedure that governs revocation
hearings—does not require that the district court verify that the defendant and his
counsel review the probation оfficer’s revocation report. Indeed, it does not even
require that the probation office produce such а report. Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.1
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It is clear from the language of Rule 32 that it does not apply to revocation
hearings. When a defendant is imprisoned upon revocation of supervised release,
he is still serving part of his original sentence.
Cf. United States v. Woods
,
III.
Jackson also argues that the term of imprisonment imposed by the court
following revocation was substantively unreasonable. Whether a term of
imprisonment is substantively unreasonаble is essentially a question whether the
district court abused its discretion.
Pugh
,
Jackson argues that the sеntence is unreasonable because it fails to account for or to address the root of his problems—his inability to control his anger. Jackson suggests that a more lenient sentence would help alleviate his anger management problem оr that, in any case, the district court should have imposed a condition that he receive anger management treatmеnt.
At the revocation hearing, the district judge considered and addressed Jackson’s arguments about his anger management problem. Jackson does not *6 offer any explanation how a lesser term of imprisonment would address his anger management рroblem. And he has not established that the district court’s revocation order has denied him the ability to participate in angеr management programs during his incarceration. Accordingly, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in revоking Jackson’s supervised release and imposing a 21-month term of imprisonment.
Because we conclude that the district cоurt committed no procedural error and that it did not abuse its discretion, we affirm.
AFFIRMED.
Notes
[1] Because Jackson raises this argument for thе first time on appeal, we review for plain
error.
United States v. Aguillard
,
[2] The purposes of § 3553(a) are: (1) the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant; (2) the need to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense; (3) the need for deterrence; (4) the need to protect the public; (5) the need to provide the defendant with educational or vocational training or medical carе; (6) the kinds of sentences available; (7) the Sentencing Guidelines range; (8) the pertinent policy statements of the Sentencing Commission; (9) the need to avoid unwanted sentencing disparities; and (10) the need to provide restitution to victims. 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).