Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Michael DEFEO, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-23
Citations: 668 F. App'x 356
Docket Number: No. 15-10269 Non-Argument Calendar
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Michael DEFEO, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before WILSON, ROSENBAUM and BLACK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 668
Pages: 356–357

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Anthony Michael DEFEO, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-10269 Non-Argument Calendar
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Date Filed: 08/23/2016
Cherie Krigsman, Yvette Rhodes, Arthur Lee Bentley, III, Tampa, FL, Michael C. Bagge-Hernandez, David Lazarus, Jeffrey F. Michelland, Fort Myers, FL, U.S. Attorney’s Office, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Lee Hollander, Law Offices of Hollander & Hanuka, Naples, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before WILSON, ROSENBAUM and BLACK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Anthony Defeo appeals his 110-month sentence, imposed within the advisory guideline range, after pleading guilty to wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. On appeal, Defeo argues that the district court abused its discretion by denying his motions for departure and variance.
Nothing in the record shows the district court misunderstood its authority to grant the downward departure Defeo requested, so we lack jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary refusal to grant it. See United States v. Dudley, 463 F.3d 1221, 1228 (11th Cir. 2006) (explaining we lack jurisdiction to review a district court's discretionary refusal to grant a downward departure unless the district court incorrectly believed it lacked authority to depart from the guideline range). Further, Defeo's conclusory assertion, that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his requests for variances, fails to meet his burden to show that his 110-month within-guideline sentence is unreasonable. See United States v. Talley, 431 F.3d 784, 788 (11th Cir. 2005) (stating the party challenging the sentence bears the burden of proving the sentence is unreasonable in light of the record and the § 3553(a) factors and that we ordinarily expect a within-guidelines sentence to be reasonable). The district court explained it considered the § 3553(a) factors, particularly Defeo's history of fraudulent activity, and found very little to mitigate Defeo's actions. De-feo's sentence is not outside the range of reasonable sentences dictated' by the facts of this case. See United States v. Irey, 612 F.3d 1160, 1190 (11th Cir. 2010) (en banc) (explaining we will reverse if left with the "firm conviction that the district court committed a clear error of judgment in weighing the § 3553(a) factors by arriving at a sentence that lies outside the range of reasonable sentences dictated by the facts of the case"). Accordingly, we affirm De-feo's sentence.
AFFIRMED.
. Because we write for the parties, we set out only what is necessary to explain our decision.