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Parties Involved:
Jose Manuel Mancha-Galvan
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Scott O. Wright, United States District Judge for the Western

District of Missouri.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-1293

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United States of America, *

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Appellee, * Appeal from the United States

* District Court for the

v. * Western District of Missouri.

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Jose Manuel Mancha-Galvan, * [UNPUBLISHED]

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Appellant. *

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Submitted: October 6, 2005

Filed: October 11, 2005

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Before BYE, McMILLIAN, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Jose Manuel Mancha-Galvan pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute fifty

grams or more of methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the district

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 sentenced him to seventy months in prison and four years of supervised release.

On appeal, his counsel moved to withdraw and filed a brief under Anders v.

California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967).

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Counsel argues the district court erred under United States v. Booker, 125 S.

Ct. 738 (2005), by treating the Guidelines as mandatory at Mancha-Galvan’s

pre-Booker sentencing. However, Mancha-Galvan did not preserve this issue below

and we conclude he is not entitled to plain-error Booker relief because there is no

indication in the record the district court would have imposed a lower sentence under

advisory Guidelines. See United States v. Pirani, 406 F.3d 543, 552-53 (8th Cir.

2005) (en banc).

Having reviewed the record independently pursuant to Penson v. Ohio, 488

U.S. 75 (1988), we conclude there are no nonfrivolous issues for appeal.

Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court and we grant counsel’s

motion to withdraw.

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