Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Richard Tommy WILLIAMS, also known as Richard T. Williams, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-05-13
Citations: 642 F. App'x 656
Docket Number: No. 15-3297
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Richard Tommy WILLIAMS, also known as Richard T. Williams, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before GRUENDER, ARNOLD, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 642
Pages: 656–657

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Richard Tommy WILLIAMS, also known as Richard T. Williams, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 15-3297.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: May 2, 2016.
Filed: May 13, 2016.
Maureen McGuire, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Des Moines, IA, Richard D. Westphal, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Davenport, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Heather Quick, Assistant, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Cedar Rapids, IA, for Defendant-Appellant.
Richard Tommy Williams, Terre Haute, IN, pro se.
Before GRUENDER, ARNOLD, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Richard Williams appeals after the district court sentenced him to 77 months in prison and two years of supervised release upon his guilty plea to a felon-in-possession charge. Williams's counsel has moved to withdraw, and argues in a brief filed under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), that the district court plainly erred in accepting the plea agreement, because the decision in' Johnson v. United States, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2551, 192 L.Ed.2d 569 (2015), affected Williams's advisory Guidelines range. In pro se supplemental filings, Williams also relies upon Johnson to challenge his sentence.
These arguments fail, because the sentence was imposed pursuant to a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure ' 11(c)(1)(C) plea agreement, under which Williams and the government specifically agreed to a sentence of 77 months. In fact, at the time the district court accepted the plea agreement, the parties and the court had discussed Johnson at some length, and the parties still wished to proceed with the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) agreement. See United States v. Kling, 516 F.3d 702, 704-05 (8th Cir.2008) (defendant waived Eighth Amendment challenge to sentence imposed under Rule 11(c)(1)(C) agreement, which upon acceptance became binding on government, defendant, and district court).
Having independently reviewed the record in accordance with 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 affirm the judgment, and we grant counsel's motion to withdraw.
. The Honorable James E. Gritzner, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.