* Pursuant to 5 TH C IR
. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5 TH C IR
. R. 47.5.4. 

### IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 06-61073 Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff-Appellee

v. BERNARD SANGS Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi USDC No. 2:97-CR-96-4
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART, and OWEN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: * Bernard Sangs, federal prisoner # 10671-042, appeals the district court’s denial of his “motion for judicial review.” In that motion, Sangs argued that the Government orally agreed to file a motion under F ED
. R. C RIM
. P. 35 to reduce his sentence for substantial assistance that he provided after sentencing, and that the Government has refused to file the motion. The district court construed the motion forjudicial reviewas a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and denied the motion because Sangs failed to obtain our certification ofthe motion. United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit 

### F I L E D December 13, 2007 Charles R. Fulbruge III ClerkNo. 06-61073

The government does not make a jurisdictional challenge, but we must consider this court’s and the district court’s jurisdictional basis. S ee United States v. Key, 205 F.3d 773, 774 (5th Cir. 2000). The district court has jurisdiction tocorrect or modify Sangs’s sentence in limited circumstances under 18 U.S.C. § 3582 (b) and (c). The applicable provision here permits jurisdiction if the government moves to reduce a defendant’s sentence under F ED
. R. C RIM
. P. 35(b)(1). The court has jurisdiction when this motion is made more than one year after sentencing if the defendant has substantially assisted the government by providing “information not known to the defendant until one year or more after sentencing”; information that was provided within one year of sentencing that did not become useful until more than one year after sentencing; or information that the defendant could not have reasonably anticipated to be useful until more than one year after sentencing. F ED
. R. C RIM
. P. 35(b)(2)(A)- (C); see also United States v. Early, 27 F.3d 140, 141 (5th Cir. 1994). The district court hasjurisdiction to review a government’s refusal to file a Rule 35 motion only where the defendant has made a “substantial threshold showing” that the government has refused based on an “unconstitutional motive.” U nited States v. Sneed , 63 F.3d 381, 389 n.6 (5th Cir. 1995); Wade v. United States, 504 U.S. 181, 185-86 (1992). Sangs’s motion forjudicial reviewwas “an unauthorized motion which the distri ct court was without jurisdiction to entertain” because “his motion and situation do not fit any provision” of the Rule. E arly, 27 F.3d at 142. Sangs did not make a “substantial threshold showing” of “unconstitutional motive” that might have permitted the district court to review the Government’s refusal to file a Rule 35(b) motion. S ee Wade , 504 U.S. at 185-86. Accordingly, we affirm on the alternate grounds that the district court lacked jurisdiction. S ee Early, 27 F.3d at 142

.No. 06-61073

AFFIRMED.