Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kathy L. PERRY, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-04-10
Citations: 273 F. App'x 549
Docket Number: No. 07-2805
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kathy L. PERRY, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 273
Pages: 549–550

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kathy L. PERRY, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 07-2805.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Submitted April 2, 2008.
Decided April 10, 2008.
Michelle L. Jacobs, Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff.
Kathy L. Perry, Federal Prison Camp, Greenville, IL, for Defendant.
Before MICHAEL S. KANNE, Circuit Judge, ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge and DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge.
After examining the briefs and the record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
ORDER
Kathy Perry pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. See 21 U.S.C. § 846, 841(a)(1). In December 2005 she was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, the statutory minimum since the offense involved at least five grams. See id. § 841(b)(l)(B)(iii). At sentencing the prosecutor told the district court that Perry had provided information about a fugitive coconspirator, and that the government anticipated filing a post-sentence motion for a reduced sentence if he was arrested and prosecuted. See Fed. R.Crim.P. 35(b). The government never filed a Rule 35(b) motion, so Perry, by then pro se, filed one herself more than a year after sentencing. The district court denied Perry's motion because she received the statutory minimum, the government had not moved to reduce that term, and it was too late — so the court thought— for the government to file a motion under Rule 35(b). Perry appeals.
Rule 35(b) authorizes a district court to reduce a sentence for substantial assistance only"upon the government's motion." Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(b)(1); see Wade v. Unit ed States, 504 U.S. 181, 185-86, 112 S.Ct. 1840, 118 L.Ed.2d 524 (1992). The government must act within a year of sentencing unless the defendant's information was not known or did not become useful until later. Fed.R.CrimP. 35(b)(2). Here, the government has yet to file a Rule 35(b) motion for Perry's substantial assistance. And Perry did not allege any breach of promise, unconstitutional motive, or bad faith on the government's part. See Wade, 504 U.S. at 185-87, 112 S.Ct. 1840; United States v. Wilson, 390 F.3d 1003, 1011-13 (7th Cir. 2004). The district court in this case thus had no choice but to deny Perry's motion.
AFFIRMED.