Opinion ID: 196806
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Heading: Challenge to Sentencing

Text: 6 On appeal, Perez suggests that his base offense level should have been less than 31 for two reasons. He says that he was a minimal, not just a minor, participant in the offense to which he pled guilty. See U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.2(a) & (b). He also claims that mitigating circumstances warranted a lower base offense level. 7 In part, Perez is asking us to relieve him of the concessions he made in his plea agreement--that his base offense level would be 31, that he was a minor (not minimal) participant, and that no further adjustments to his base offense level would be made--which we perceive no basis for doing. We also note that the sentencing transcript indicates that Perez had ample opportunity to describe his mitigating circumstances at sentencing and that the court was influenced by his allocution. The court imposed the lowest sentence possible given Perez's sentencing guideline range--a sentence which was twelve months lower than the one Perez agreed to in his plea agreement. Perez did not ask the court to depart downward from the sentencing guideline range. 8 We affirm appellant's conviction and sentence and grant appellate counsel's motion to withdraw.