Case ID: f-appx_402/html/0211-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff—Appellee, v. Michael Anthony PETERS, Defendant—Appellant.
    No. 09-30388.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted Oct. 19, 2010.
    
    Filed Oct. 29, 2010.
    Carl E. Rostad, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Great Falls, MT, for Plaintiff-Appel-lee.
    Daniel Donovan, Esquire, Thompson, Potts & Donovan, P.C., Great Falls, MT, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before: O’SCANNLAIN, TALLMAN, and BEA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Michael Anthony Peters appeals from his 120-month mandatory minimum sentence imposed following his guilty-plea conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b)(1)(B) and 846. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Peters contends that his mandatory minimum sentence is substantively unreasonable because it is greater than necessary under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). Peters’s contention is foreclosed. United States v. Wipf, 620 F.3d 1168, 1170-71 (9th Cir.2010) (Section 3553 does not authorize a court to impose a sentence below the mandatory statutory minimum.).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.