Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Kenneth R. BURNETT, Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-10-11
Citations: 20 F. App'x 593
Docket Number: No. 01-2235
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Kenneth R. BURNETT, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 20
Pages: 593–594

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Kenneth R. BURNETT, Appellant.
No. 01-2235.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 4, 2001.
Filed Oct. 11, 2001.
Before WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, HANSEN, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Kenneth R. Burnett challenges the sentence imposed by the district court after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 846. Mr. Burnett's counsel has moved to withdraw and filed a brief under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396,18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), arguing that the district court erred in assessing criminal history points for two 1972 crime-of-violence convictions, which (when combined with a prior state conviction for a crime of violence) qualified Mr. Burnett as a career offender under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. Mr. Burnett has not filed a pro se supplemental brief.
It is undisputed that in 1989 Mr. Burnett began serving additional time in prison on the 1972 federal offenses after he was released from custody on an intervening state assault conviction. We thus conclude that the district court properly determined Mr. Burnett's career-offender status, as his return to federal custody occurred within fifteen years of commencing the instant drug offense. See U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(e) (counting any prior sentence of imprisonment exceeding 13 months, whenever imposed, that resulted in defendant being incarcerated during any part of 15-year period prior to commencement of instant offense), 4B1.2, comment, (n.4) (provisions of § 4A1.2 apply to counting of convictions under § 4B1.1).
Having reviewed the record independently under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 109 S.Ct. 346, 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), we have found no nonfrivolous issues for appeal. Accordingly, we affirm and grant counsel's motion to withdraw.
. The Honorable Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.