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Parties Involved:
Mackenzie Everett Servantez
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Eighth Circuit

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No. 15-2602

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United States of America

lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee

v.

Mackenzie Everett Servantez

lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant

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Appeal from United States District Court 

for the Northern District of Iowa - Ft. Dodge

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 Submitted: December 3, 2015

Filed: December 8, 2015 

[Unpublished]

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Before SMITH, BYE, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Mackenzie Servantez directly appeals after he pled guilty to a federal drug

charge, and the district court1

 sentenced him at the bottom of the applicable Guidelines

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

the Northern District of Iowa.

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range. His counsel has moved to withdraw, and in a brief filed under Anders v.

California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), he challenges the substantive reasonableness of

Servantez’s sentence. Servantez had filed a pro se supplemental brief reiterating

counsel’s argument.

Upon careful review, we conclude that the court did not abuse its discretion in

refusing to vary below the Guidelines range, and that the resulting sentence is not

substantively unreasonable. See United States v. Feemster, 572 F.3d 455, 461 (8th

Cir. 2009) (en banc) (standard of review); United States v. Jordan, 573 F.3d 586, 590

(8th Cir. 2009). Further, having independently reviewed the record pursuant to

Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), we find no nonfrivolous issues.

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

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