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Parties Involved:
Allyn John Koopman
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 16-2114

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United States of America

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee

v.

Allyn John Koopman

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids

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 Submitted: November 17, 2016

Filed: November 22, 2016

[Unpublished]

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Before SMITH, BOWMAN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

After pleading guilty to a drug offense, Allyn John Koopman appeals the

district court’s order sentencing him to 100 months in prison with 3 years of 1

The Honorable Linda R. Reade, Chief Judge, United States District Court for

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the Northern District of Iowa.

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supervised release. His counsel has moved to withdraw, and filed a brief under

Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), arguing that the sentence was

unreasonable. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.

The sentence was not substantively unreasonable, as the district court

sentenced Koopman to a within-Guidelines sentence after stating that it had

considered the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors. See United States v. Callaway, 762 F.3d

754, 760 (8th Cir. 2014) (on appeal, within-Guidelines-range sentence may be

presumed reasonable); United States v. Miller, 557 F.3d 910, 917 (8th Cir. 2009)

(under substantive-reasonablenesstest, district court abusesits discretion if it failsto

consider relevant § 3553(a) factor, gives significant weight to improper or irrelevant

factor, or commits clear error of judgment in weighing factors). An independent

review of the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), reveals no

non-frivolous issues for appeal.

The judgment is affirmed, and counsel’s motion to withdraw is granted.

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