United States v. Vincent Caulfield, No. 09-3310 (8th Cir. 2010)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Criminal case - Sentencing. Anders case. The district court committed no procedural or substantive error in sentencing defendant, and the sentence was not unreasonable.
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United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 09-3310 ___________ United States of America, Appellee, v. Vincent A. Caulfield, Appellant. * * * * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the * District of Nebraska. * * [UNPUBLISHED] * ___________ Submitted: April 21, 2010 Filed: April 26, 2010 ___________ Before WOLLMAN, COLLOTON, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM. Vincent Caulfield pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and to being subject to forfeiture of firearms. The district court1 sentenced him within the applicable advisory Guidelines range to 57 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. On appeal, his counsel has filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), in which he requests leave to withdraw and argues that the court should have imposed a shorter sentence, and 1 The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska. should have ordered that the sentence run concurrently with the sentence the court imposed in a separate case involving Caulfield s violation of supervised release terms. We conclude that the district court committed no procedural or substantive error in sentencing Caulfield. See United States v. Feemster, 572 F.3d 455, 461 (8th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (standards for reviewing sentence). In particular, we conclude that it was not unreasonable for the district court to order that the sentence imposed in the instant case was to run consecutively to the sentence imposed in the case involving his supervised release. See U.S.S.G. § 7B1.3, comment. (n.4) (it is Commission s recommendation that any sentence of imprisonment for criminal offense that is imposed after revocation of supervised release be run consecutively to any term of imprisonment imposed upon revocation); see also United States v. Lee, 545 F.3d 678, 680 (8th Cir. 2008) (per curiam) (with limited exception, district court s decision to impose consecutive or concurrent sentence is reviewed only for reasonableness), cert. denied, 129 S. Ct. 2758 (2009). Having reviewed the record independently under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80 (1988), we have found no nonfrivolous issue for appeal. Accordingly, we affirm the district court s judgment, and we grant counsel s request to withdraw. ______________________________ -2-
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