Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2022-10-12 16:00:23.965616+00
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United States Court of Appeals
                             For the Eighth Circuit
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                                 No. 22-2194
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                              United States of America

                         lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee

                                            v.

                                   Troy John Pitzen

                       lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant
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                     Appeal from United States District Court
                     for the Southern District of Iowa - Central
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                             Submitted: October 6, 2022
                              Filed: October 12, 2022
                                   [Unpublished]
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Before ERICKSON, GRASZ, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      Troy John Pitzen appeals the within-Guidelines-range sentence the district
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court imposed after he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a federal agency.

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       The Honorable Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, United States District Judge for
the Southern District of Iowa.
His counsel has moved for leave to withdraw, and has filed a brief under Anders v.
California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), challenging the substantive reasonableness of the
sentence.

       Upon careful review, we conclude that the district court did not impose a
substantively unreasonable sentence. See United States v. Feemster, 572 F.3d 455,
461-62 (8th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (reviewing sentence under deferential abuse-of-
discretion standard; discussing substantive reasonableness); see also United States v.
Callaway, 762 F.3d 754, 760 (8th Cir. 2014) (on appeal, within-Guidelines-range
sentence presumed reasonable).

       Having independently reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75
(1988), we find no non-frivolous issues for appeal. Accordingly, we grant counsel
leave to withdraw, and affirm.
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