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Parties Involved:
William R. Bowles
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Pla intiff-Appellee, 

FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

Tenth Circuit 

JAN 8- 1990 

&OBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

v. No. 89-3049 

WILLIAM R. BOWLES, 

Defendan t -Appellant. 

(D.C. No. 88-20072-01) 

(D. Kan.) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Be f o re LOGAN, TACHA, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

This appeal is from a sentencing order of the district court 

in whi ch the district court denied defendant a two-point reduction 

in his sentence for acceptance of responsibility pursuant to 

Section 3El.l of the Sentencing Guidelines. The district judge 

denied t he application for a reduction in sentence on the grounds 

that the defendant had been engaged in "further criminal conduct" 

and the refore t hat he had not shown sufficiently the acceptance of 

responsibility that would have triggered the reduction provisions 

of t he s tatute. The standard of review under section 3El.l is 

highly deferential: "The sentencing judge is in a unique position 

to e valuate a defendant's acceptance of responsibility. For this 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

t he case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36 . 3 . 

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reason , the determination of the sentencing judge is entitled to 

great deference on review and should not be disturbed unless it is 

without foundation." United States Sentencing Commission, 

Guidelines Manual, § 3El.l, comment (n.5). We hold that the 

district court was not without foundation in its determination 

that acceptance of responsibility was insufficiently shown and 

AFFIRM the order of the district court. 

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ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Deanell Reece Tacha 

Circuit Judge 

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