Document ID: s3://data.kl3m.ai/documents/govinfo/USCOURTS/USCOURTS-ca8-03-03376/USCOURTS-ca8-03-03376-1/pdf.json

Parties Involved:
Jacob A. Kanatzar
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

1

The Honorable Richard S. Arnold died on September 23, 2004. This opinion

is being filed by the remaining judges of the panel pursuant to 8th Cir. R. 47E.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

___________

No. 03-3376

___________

United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the Western

* District of Missouri.

Jacob A. Kanatzar, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

___________

Submitted: March 3, 2005

Filed: June 20, 2005

___________

Before WOLLMAN, RICHARD S. ARNOLD,1

 MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD,

Circuit Judges.

___________

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in this case, vacated

our judgment, and remanded the case to us for reconsideration in light of United

States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738 (2005). See Kanatzar v. United States, 125 S. Ct.

1010 (2005), granting cert. and vacating the judgment in United States v. Kanatzar,

370 F.3d 810 (8th Cir. 2004). In Booker, 125 S. Ct. at 749-51, the Court held that

sentence enhancements based solely on facts found by a court under mandatory

Appellate Case: 03-3376 Page: 1 Date Filed: 06/20/2005 Entry ID: 1917516 
2

The Honorable Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., United States District Judge for the

Western District of Missouri.

-2-

federal sentencing guidelines violate the sixth amendment, which the Court then

remedied by making the sentencing guidelines advisory rather than mandatory, id. at

764.

We have examined the relevant record and conclude that the defendant, Jacob

Kanatzar, did not preserve a Booker issue, and that he is not entitled to plain-error

relief because he cannot show that his substantial rights were affected, see United

States v. Pirani, 406 F.3d 543, 550-53 (8th Cir. 2005) (en banc). We therefore

conclude that Booker did not affect our previous opinion in this case. Accordingly

we reinstate our prior opinion and again affirm the judgment of the district court.2

______________________________

Appellate Case: 03-3376 Page: 2 Date Filed: 06/20/2005 Entry ID: 1917516