Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jaime VERGARA-VIERNES, Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-03-16
Citations: 175 F. App'x 100
Docket Number: No. 05-1732
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jaime VERGARA-VIERNES, Appellant.
Judges: Before MELLOY, FAGG, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 175
Pages: 100–101

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Jaime VERGARA-VIERNES, Appellant.
No. 05-1732.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted March 7, 2006.
Filed March 16, 2006.
John Beamer, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Des Moines, IA, for Appellee.
Jaime Vergara-Viernes, Leavenworth, KS, pro se.
John P. Messina, B. John Bums, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Des Moines, IA, for Appellant.
Before MELLOY, FAGG, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Jaime Vergara-Viernes (Vergara) appeals the 57-month sentence the district court imposed upon his guilty plea to illegal re-entry after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). Vergara'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). Counsel questions the reasonableness of the sentence, arguing that Vergara's cultural assimilation, his ineligibility for prison programs and early release, and the sentencing disparities created by the unavailability of an early-disposition program in the Southern District of Iowa, see U.S.S.G. § 5K3.1, required a sentence below the advisory Sentencing Guidelines range.
We conclude the sentence is not unreasonable. See United States v. Haack, 403 F.3d 997, 1004 (8th Cir.) (standard of review), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 276, 163 L.Ed.2d 246 (2005). The district court calculated the Guidelines imprisonment range and took that range into account, along with other 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors. See United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 260-62, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005) (§ 3553(a) factors will guide appellate courts in determining whether sentence is unreasonable). Further, any sentence disparity arising from section 5K3.1 early-disposition programs does not make Vergara's sentence—which is otherwise reasonable—unreasonable. See United States v. Sebastian, 436 F.3d 913, 915-17 (8th Cir. 2006) (Congress and President, by directing that Sentencing Commission provide § 5K3.1 early-disposition programs in certain judicial districts, concluded that advantages stemming from such programs outweigh their disadvantages, and that any resulting disparity is not "unwarranted" for purposes of § 3553(a)(6); sentence disparities arising from § 5K3.1 program do not make otherwise reasonable sentence unreasonable).
Having reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80, 109 S.Ct. 346, 102 L.Ed.2d 300 (1988), we find no nonfrivolous issues. Accordingly, we grant counsel's motion to withdraw, and we affirm.
. The Honorable Robert W. Pratt, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.