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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Robert Charles Zimmerman
Appellant

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 03-2183

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United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the Southern

* District of Iowa.

Robert Charles Zimmerman, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: March 1, 2005

Filed: June 6, 2005

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Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, HEANEY, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

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 Zimmerman v. United States, 125 S. Ct.

1021 (2005), granting cert. and vacating judgment in United States v. Zimmerman,

No. 03-2183, 2004 WL 406094 (March 5, 2004) (unpublished per curiam). In

Booker, 125 S. Ct. at 749-51, the Court held that sentence enhancements based solely

on facts found by a court under mandatory federal sentencing guidelines violate the

sixth amendment, which the Court then remedied by making the sentencing

guidelines advisory rather than mandatory, id. at 764.

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The Honorable Robert W. Pratt, United States District Judge for the Southern

District of Iowa.

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

Zimmerman, 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 sentence imposed by the district

court.1

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