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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Paul Lynn Whitehead
Appellant

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth e{r<mft 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

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ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

Plaintiff-Appellee 

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LYNN WHITEHEAD 

Defendant-Appellant. 

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No. 89-6261 

(D.C. No. CR-89-74-A 

( W. D . Okla . ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before ANDERSON, BRORBY, Circuit Judges, and PARKER,* District 

Judge. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P . 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. 

submitted without oral argument. 

The cause is therefore ordered 

Appellant, Paul Lynn Whitehead, appeals his sentence for 

violation of 21 u.s.c. § 841 (a)(l) and 21 u.s.c. § 846. He 

contends that the district court erred as a matter of law by 

refusing to consider a downward departure from the Sentencing 

Guidelines under Section 5Kl.1, absent a motion by the government. 

He also argues that Section 5Kl.1 deprives a defendant of the full 

* 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 

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

36.3. 

* Honorable James A. Parker, United States District Judge for 

the District of New Mexico, sitting by designation. 

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benefit of a plea agreement if the government arbitrarily refuses 

to submit a motion regarding downward departure. We rejected 

similar arguments in United States v. Kuntz, No. 89-2182, slip op. 

(10th Cir. July 16, 1990) which this court has just published. 

There is nothing in the arguments presented in this case which 

compel a different conclusion from that reached in Kuntz. 

Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

Stephen H. Anderson 

Circuit Judge 

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