U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2019

United States v. Zackery Jones

United States v. Zackery Jones
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · Decided March 28, 2019

United States v. Zackery Jones

Opinion

United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 18-2166 ___________________________ United States of America lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee v. Zackery Marvin Leroy Jones lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport ____________ Submitted: March 15, 2019 Filed: March 28, 2019 [Unpublished] ____________ Before GRUENDER, SHEPHERD, and STRAS, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM.

Zackery Jones directly appeals after he pleaded guilty to a drug offense and the district court1 sentenced him to a within-Guidelines prison term. His counsel has The Honorable Stephanie M. Rose, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. moved for leave to withdraw, and has filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), challenging the sentence.

Upon careful review, we conclude that the district court did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence. See United States v. Feemster, 572 F.3d 455, 461-62 (8th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (substantive reasonableness is reviewed for abuse of discretion); see also United States v. Callaway, 762 F.3d 754, 760 (8th Cir. 2014) (on appeal, within-Guidelines-range sentence may be presumed reasonable). The record establishes that the district court adequately considered the sentencing factors listed in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). See United States v. Wohlman, 651 F.3d 878, 887 (8th Cir. 2011) (court need not mechanically recite § 3553(a) factors, so long as it is clear from record that court actually considered them in determining sentence).

We have also independently reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), and we find no non-frivolous issues for appeal. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment, and we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw. ______________________________

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