United States v. William Yancey, No. 17-1908 (8th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseCourt Description: Per Curiam - Before Wollman, Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. Anders case. Defendant's sentence was not substantively unreasonable. [ December 08, 2017
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United States Court of Appeals For the Eighth Circuit ___________________________ No. 17-1908 ___________________________ United States of America, lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee, v. William Leo Yancey, lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant. ____________ Appeal from United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids ____________ Submitted: November 24, 2017 Filed: December 11, 2017 [Unpublished] ____________ Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges. ____________ PER CURIAM. William Yancey appeals after he pled guilty to a drug-related offense and the district court1 sentenced him to 188 months in prison, a term within the calculated 1 The Honorable Linda R. Reade, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa. Guidelines range. His counsel has moved for leave to withdraw, and has filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), questioning the reasonableness of Yancey’s prison term. Yancey has not filed a supplemental brief. Upon careful review, we conclude that the district court did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence. See United States v. David, 682 F.3d 1074, 1076-77 (8th Cir. 2012) (discussing appellate review of sentencing decisions); see also United States v. Callaway, 762 F.3d 754, 760 (8th Cir. 2014) (on appeal, within-Guidelines sentence may be presumed reasonable). In addition, we have independently reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), and have found no nonfrivolous issues for appeal. Accordingly, we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw, and we affirm. ______________________________ -2-
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