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United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                     No. 06-2766
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United States of America,                 *
                                          *
             Appellee,                    *
                                          *
      v.                                  * Appeal from the United States
                                          * District Court for the
Dewayne Laverdo Hamilton,                 * Eastern District of Arkansas.
                                          *
             Appellant.                   *      [UNPUBLISHED]
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                              Submitted: August 31, 2007
                                 Filed: September 4, 2007
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Before BYE, RILEY, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      Dewayne Hamilton pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct interstate commerce
by robbery (Hobbs Act robbery), in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951; conspiring to
brandish a firearm during a crime of violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 924(c)(1)(A)(ii), (o); and being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18
U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court1 thereafter noted its consideration of the 18
U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors and sentenced Hamilton to concurrent 49-month prison terms

      1
        The Honorable James M. Moody, United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Arkansas.
on the robbery and felon-in-possession counts (using an advisory Guidelines range of
46-57 months), and a mandatory consecutive 84-month term on the brandishing count,
see 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(ii), (D)(ii), for a total of 133 months in prison, to be
followed by 5 years of supervised release. The court noted that the 133-month
sentence was to run concurrently with an undischarged state robbery sentence, with
credit for time served. Hamilton appeals, and in a brief under Anders v. California,
386 U.S. 738 (1967), counsel asks this court to find the sentence unreasonable, or
cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment. In a pro se letter, Hamilton
also raises a double jeopardy issue.

       We review a sentence for reasonableness, and a sentence within the correctly
calculated Guidelines range is presumptively reasonable. See United States v.
Lincoln, 413 F.3d 716, 717-18 (8th Cir. 2005); see also U.S.S.G. § 5G1.1(b) (where
statutorily required minimum sentence is greater than maximum of applicable
Guidelines range, statutorily required minimum sentence shall be Guidelines
sentence); Rita v. United States, 127 S. Ct. 2456, 2462 (2007) (approving
presumption). We see no basis in the record for concluding that Hamilton’s sentence
is unreasonable. See United States v. Two Shields, 2007 WL 2301911, at *5 (8th Cir.
Aug. 14, 2007) (defendant overcomes presumption of reasonableness if district court
failed to consider relevant factor that should have received significant weight, gave
significant weight to improper or irrelevant factor, or weighed appropriate factors in
clearly erroneous way). In addition, his sentence does not amount to cruel and
unusual punishment, see United States v. Atteberry, 447 F.3d 562, 565 (8th Cir.
2006), or constitute a double jeopardy violation, see United States v. Leathers, 354
F.3d 955, 959-60 (8th Cir. 2004).

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