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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Don C. BROWN, Appellant.
    No. 07-2174.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: May 7, 2008.
    Filed: May 8, 2008.
    Reginald L. Harris, U.S. Attorney’s Office, St. Louis, MO, for Appellee.
    Janis C. Good, Federal Public Defender’s Office, St. Louis, MO, for Appellant.
    Don C. Brown, Steelville, MO, pro se.
    Before BYE, SMITH, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
   [UNPUBLISHED]

PER CURIAM.

Don C. Brown pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing a mixture or substance containing cocaine base (crack), in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1). At sentencing, the district court imposed a 46-month prison sentence to ran consecutively to an undischarged prison sentence imposed in another case for violating supervised release. Brown’s counsel has moved to withdraw and filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), arguing that the district court erred in making the sentence consecutive to the supervised-release revocation sentence. In a supplemental brief, Brown adds that his sentence is greater than necessary to satisfy the statutory sentencing goals.

We conclude that the sentence, at the bottom of the advisory Guidelines range, is not unreasonable. See United States v. Harris, 493 F.3d 928, 932 (8th Cir.2007) (sentence within advisory Guidelines range is presumptively reasonable), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 128 S.Ct. 1263, 170 L.Ed.2d 111 (2008); United States v. Winston, 456 F.3d 861, 867 (8th Cir.2006) (reviewing district court’s decision to impose consecutive sentence for reasonableness); United States v. Haack, 403 F.3d 997, 1003-04 (8th Cir.2005) (this court reviews sentence to determine whether district court abused discretion by imposing unreasonable sentence; describing factors used to review sentence for reasonableness); see also U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(c) & comment, (n. 3(C)) (addressing sentencing when defendant commits instant offense while on supervised release for another offense).

Finally, after reviewing the record independently under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80, 109 S.Ct. 346, 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), we find no nonfrivolous issues. Accordingly, we grant counsel leave to withdraw, and we affirm. 
      
      . The Honorable E. Richard Webber, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.