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Parties Involved:
United States of America
Appellee
Ernest Alphonzo Wilcox
Appellant

Document Text:

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The Honorable Harold D. Vietor, United States District Judge for the Southern

District of Iowa.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 04-3275

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United States of America, *

*

Appellee, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the

* Southern District of Iowa.

Ernest Alphonzo Wilcox, *

* [UNPUBLISHED]

Appellant. *

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Submitted: October 6, 2005

Filed: October 27, 2005

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Before ARNOLD, FAGG, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Ernest Alphonzo Wilcox appeals the sentence the district court1

 imposed

following his guilty plea to bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). On

appeal, Wilcox argues that the district court erred in not granting him a downward

departure under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.12 (coercion and duress), and in not treating two

March 8, 1988 state second-degree theft convictions, for which Wilcox received

concurrent 5-year prison terms, as a single prior conviction for purposes of calculating

his criminal history score.

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We conclude that the district court’s discretionary decision to deny Wilcox’s

downward-departure request is unreviewable, see United States v. Mohr, 407 F.3d

898, 902 (8th Cir. 2005), and that the district court did not err in concluding that

Wilcox’s two theft convictions were not related, see U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(a)(2),

comment. (n.3); United States v. Newsome, 409 F.3d 996, 998-99 (8th Cir. 2005)

(standard of review), petition for cert. filed, (U.S. Sept. 6, 2005) (No. 05-6240).

Accordingly, we affirm.

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