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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Joshua T. PAYNE, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 15-1223.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: Sept. 2, 2015.
    Filed: Sept. 8, 2015.
    Robert G. Kuchar, Asst. Fed. Public Defender, Kansas City, MO (Laine Carderel-la, Fed. Public Defender, on the brief), for appellant.
    Joshua T. Payne, Florence, CO, pro se.
    David A. Barnes, Asst. U.S. Atty., Kansas City, MO, for appellee.
    Before WOLLMAN, SMITH, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

Joshua Payne directly appeals after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and the district court sentenced him within the Guidelines range contemplated in his binding plea agreement. His counsel has moved to withdraw, and has filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967). Payne has filed a pro se supplemental brief in which he challenges the basis for his calculated Guidelines offense level.

After careful de novo review, see United States v. Scott, 627 F.3d 702, 704 (8th Cir.2010), we will enforce the appeal waiver that is included in Payne’s written plea agreement, because the claims raised in this appeal fall within the scope of the waiver, Payne’s testimony at the plea hearing shows that he entered into the plea agreement and the appeal waiver knowingly and voluntarily, and dismissing the appeal based on the waiver will not result in a miscarriage of justice, see United States v. Andis, 333 F.3d 886, 889-90 (8th Cir.2003) (en banc). Further, having independently reviewed the record pursuant to Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 109 S.Ct. 346, 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), we find no nonfriv-olous issues that fall outside the scope of the appeal waiver.

Accordingly, we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw, and we deny the remaining pending motions as moot. This appeal is dismissed. 
      
      . The Honorable Greg Kays, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.