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Parties Involved:
Michael L. Jones
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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The Honorable Ortrie D. Smith, United States District Judge for the Western

District of Missouri.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-2867

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United States of America, *

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Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* Western District of Missouri.

Michael L. Jones, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: October 6, 2006 

Filed: October 18, 2006

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Before SMITH, MAGILL, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Michael Jones appeals the sentence the district court1

 imposed after he pleaded

guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

§§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). His counsel has filed a brief under Anders v. California,

386 U.S. 738 (1967), asserting that the district court should have required the

government to file a motion for a downward departure based on Jones’s substantial

assistance.

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Counsel’s argument is unavailing. See United States v. Romsey, 975 F.2d 556,

557-58 (8th Cir. 1992) (denial of defendant’s substantial-assistance

downward-departure motion was not error where government did not make motion,

even though government did not present its reasons, because plea agreement preserved

government’s discretion whether to make such motion and defendant made no

threshold showing of constitutionally impermissible motive). Having reviewed the

record pursuant to Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), we find no nonfrivolous

issues. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s judgment.

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