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Date Created: 2024-04-17 18:00:44.741064+00
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Case: 23-30606           Document: 57-1         Page: 1      Date Filed: 04/17/2024

          United States Court of Appeals
               for the Fifth Circuit                                    United States Court of Appeals
                                  ____________                                   Fifth Circuit

                                                                               FILED
                                   No. 23-30606                            April 17, 2024
                                 Summary Calendar                         Lyle W. Cayce
                                 ____________                                  Clerk

United States of America,

                                                                  Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                         versus

Michael Short,

                                           Defendant—Appellant.
                  ______________________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Eastern District of Louisiana
                           USDC No. 2:96-CR-232-1
                  ______________________________

Before Higginbotham, Stewart, and Southwick, Circuit
Judges.
Per Curiam: *
      Michael Short, federal prisoner # 22355-034, appeals the denial of his
18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) motion for a sentence reduction and the subsequent
denial of his Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion. He contends the

      _____________________
      *
          This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.
Case: 23-30606        Document: 57-1       Page: 2     Date Filed: 04/17/2024

district court erred when it denied him a sentence reduction based on
Amendment 591 of the Sentencing Guidelines.
       We review the denials at issue for an abuse of discretion. United States
v. Lopez, 989 F.3d 327, 332 (5th Cir. 2021). As the district court correctly
reasoned, Short was sentenced under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B) and its
cross-reference to U.S.S.G. § 2A1.1 such that Amendment 591 did not lower
his Guidelines range. Consequently, the district court did not abuse its
discretion by denying relief. See Lopez, 989 F.3d at 332; Trevino v. City of Fort
Worth, 944 F.3d 567, 570 (5th Cir. 2019); United States v. Anderson, 591 F.3d
789, 791 (5th Cir. 2009).
       AFFIRMED.