Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-23 00:00:38.201129+00
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Case: 23-30535           Document: 58-1         Page: 1      Date Filed: 03/22/2024

          United States Court of Appeals
               for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                        United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                 Fifth Circuit
                                   No. 23-30535
                                 Summary Calendar
                                                                               FILED
                                                                         March 22, 2024
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                                                                          Lyle W. Cayce
United States of America,                                                      Clerk

                                                                   Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                         versus

Courvisier U. Glover,

                                           Defendant—Appellant.
                  ______________________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Western District of Louisiana
                           USDC No. 5:22-CR-291-2
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Before King, Haynes, and Graves, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam: *
      Courvisier U. Glover appeals his sentence of 32 months of
imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a felon. He argues that his
sentence was unreasonable in light of a subsequently adopted amendment to
the Sentencing Guidelines and the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors.

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      *
          This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-30535       Document: 58-1       Page: 2    Date Filed: 03/22/2024

       Glover preserved his general substantive reasonableness challenge,
which we review for abuse of discretion. See Holguin-Hernandez v. United
States, 140 S. Ct. 762, 766-67 (2020). We presume that a within-guidelines
sentence, such as this one, is reasonable. See United States v. Hernandez, 876
F.3d 161, 166 (5th Cir. 2017). A defendant may rebut this reasonableness
presumption by showing that the sentence does not account for a factor that
should receive significant weight, gives significant weight to an irrelevant or
improper factor, or represents a clear error of judgment in balancing the
sentencing factors. Id.
       To the extent that Glover contends that the district court should have
applied the then-forthcoming amendment to the Guidelines, we review for
plain error, see United States v. Zarco-Beiza, 24 F.4th 477, 481-82 (5th Cir.
2022), and he has not demonstrated error, plain or otherwise, in the
application of the Sentencing Guidelines that were in effect at the time of the
offense and sentencing, see United States v. Rodarte-Vasquez, 488 F.3d 316,
322 (5th Cir. 2007).      Nor has he shown that Amendment 821 to the
Sentencing Guidelines was merely clarifying and should therefore be
considered on direct appeal. See United States v. Huff, 370 F.3d 454, 465-66
(5th Cir. 2004). Several § 3553(a) factors supported the sentence. Glover’s
arguments—including his contention that his criminal history category over-
represented the significance of his prior convictions—fail to rebut the
presumption of reasonableness attached to his within-guidelines sentence.
See Hernandez, 876 F.3d at 166.
       AFFIRMED.