Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip Wayne CATLETT, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-06-27
Citations: 471 F. App'x 559
Docket Number: No. 11-3094
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip Wayne CATLETT, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 471
Pages: 559–560

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip Wayne CATLETT, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 11-3094.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: April 16, 2012.
Filed: June 27, 2012.
Keith D. Sorrell, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Michael Skrien, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, for Defendant-Appellant.
Phillip Wayne Catlett, U.S. Penitentiary, Terre Haute, IN, pro se.
Before LOKEN, COLLOTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
A jury convicted Phillip Wayne Catlett of one count of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) after he fired several shots from a .22 caliber rifle at Daniel Manís and Ashley West and then led law enforcement authorities on a two-month manhunt during which he was seen with a firearm. With enhancements for possessing the firearm in connection with a felony assault and for obstruction of justice, and a crimi nal history category of VI, Catlett's advisory guidelines sentencing range was 120-150 months in prison, capped by the ten-year statutory maximum sentence. At sentencing, he requested a sentence below the statutory maximum based upon his unaddressed substance abuse and mental health issues and strong family support. The district court declined to vary downward from the guidelines range sentence of 120 months, explaining:
Mr. Catlett, I heard all the evidence and frankly, I agree with the Jury's verdict. And not only that, your prior offenses are catching up to you. So anytime you get in trouble, you know, from now on, it's a lot worse than it would have been the first time. And you know that, of course [ ].
Pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 and the provisions of Title 18, United States Code, Section 3553(a), and all of the factors thereunder and also in view of the sentencing objectives of just punishment; general deterrence and incapacitation, it's the judgment and sentence of the Court that you, Phillip Wayne Catlett, [are] hereby committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a term of 120 months.
I gave you some lenient treatment because I'll run whatever is left on the state offense concurrently and not consecutively.
On appeal, Catlett argues that the district court abused its discretion by imposing a substantively unreasonable sentence because the court "erred in failing to give a sufficient explanation for the sentence it imposed, [and in] failing to consider relevant § 3553(a) factors." We disagree. The district court expressly stated that it considered all the § 3553(a) factors and explained that it gave greater weight to Catlett's extensive criminal history and violent offense conduct than to the mitigating circumstances urged on Catlett's behalf. "The district court has wide latitude to weigh the § 3553(a) factors in each case and assign some factors greater weight than others in determining an appropriate sentence." United States v. Elodio-Benitez, 672 F.3d 584, 586 (8th Cir.2012) (quotation omitted). There was no abuse of discretion in imposing a guidelines range sentence.
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
. The Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.
. These alleged inadequacies are most appropriately raised as evidence of a substantively unreasonable sentence, but they can also be raised as claims of procedural sentencing error. See Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 53, 128 S.Ct. 586, 169 L.Ed.2d 445 (2007). As Catlett did not argue procedural error to the district court, and presented only the issue of substantive unreasonableness on appeal, we decline to consider procedural error. See United States v. Mejia-Perez, 635 F.3d 351, 353-54 (8th Cir.2011).