Case ID: f-appx_422/html/0379-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM: \n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Michael Simeon SADOWSKI, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 10-20508
    Conference Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    April 19, 2011.
    James Lee Turner, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Stanley G. Schneider, Schneider & McKinney, P.C., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
    Before JOLLY, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Michael Simeon Sadowski appeals as substantively unreasonable his 97-month sentence for possession of child pornography; he does not contest that the sentence falls within the applicable guidelines range. We review the substantive reasonableness of the sentence for an abuse of discretion. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 51, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). This court has rejected Sadowski’s argument that district courts err by giving credence to non-empirical Guidelines during sentencing. See United States v. Mondragon-Santiago, 564 F.3d 357, 366-67 (5th Cir.2009) (holding that a sentence within the applicable guidelines range is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness even if the Guideline applied is not empirically grounded). By arguing that the district court erred in its 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) analysis, Sadowski invites this court to engage in impermissible “substantive second-guessing of the sentencing court.” United States v. Cisneros-Gutierrez, 517 F.3d 751, 767 (5th Cir.2008). He fails to overcome the presumption of reasonableness afforded his sentence. See United States v. Alonzo, 435 F.3d 551, 554 (5th Cir.2006).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.