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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Cynthia Collette Vandry
Appellant

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The Honorable Ronald E. Longstaff, United States District Judge for the

Southern District of Iowa.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 06-1530 

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United States of America,

Appellee,

v.

Cynthia Collette Vandry,

Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States

District Court for the

Southern District of Iowa.

 [UNPUBLISHED]

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Submitted: January 11, 2007

 Filed: January 29, 2007

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Before MURPHY, HANSEN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges. 

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PER CURIAM.

Cynthia Collette Vandry appeals the district court's1

 denial of her Rule 35(b)

motion to reduce her sentence. Assuming excusable neglect exists to pardon the

untimeliness of her notice of appeal, we affirm the district court's denial of Vandry's

motion. "There is no provision in Rule 35(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal

Procedure for a motion by a defendant for a reduction based upon a claim of

substantial assistance to the [G]overnment." United States v. Palmer, 297 F.3d 760,

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768 (8th Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1143, cert. denied, 537 U.S. 1213, and cert.

denied, 538 U.S. 937 (2003). To the extent Vandry argues that the Government

should have filed a Rule 35(b) motion, she has failed to make a "substantial threshold

showing" that the Government's refusal to file the motion, which was left to the

Government's sole discretion in the plea agreement, was based on an unconstitutional

motive, and the Government’s refusal is therefore not subject to judicial review. See

United States v. Marks, 244 F.3d 971, 975 (8th Cir. 2001). The district court's

judgment is affirmed. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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