Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Mackenzie Everett SERVANTEZ, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-12-08
Citations: 623 F. App'x 834
Docket Number: No. 15-2602
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Mackenzie Everett SERVANTEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before SMITH, BYE, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 623
Pages: 834–835

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Mackenzie Everett SERVANTEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-2602.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: Dec. 3, 2015.
Filed: Dec. 8, 2015.
John H. Lammers, U.S. Attorney's Office, Sioux City, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
John P. Messina, Assistant, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Des Moines, IA, for Defendant-Appellant.
■ Mackenzie Everett Servantez, Oxford, WI, pro se.
Before SMITH, BYE, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Mackenzie Servantez directly appeals after he pled guilty to a federal drug charge, and the district court sentenced him at the bottom of the applicable Guidelines range. His counsel has moved to withdraw, and in a brief filed under An-ders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), he challenges the substantive reasonableness of Servan-tez'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, 109 S.Ct. 346, 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), we find no nonfrivolous issues.
The judgment is affirmed, and we grant counsel's motion to withdraw.
. The Honorable Linda R. Reade, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.