Opinion
No. 15-1166 No. 15-1167
07-07-2015
United States of America Plaintiff - Appellee v. Stephen Roshon Dorsey Defendant - Appellant United States of America Plaintiff - Appellee v. Kenneth Williams Defendant - Appellant
Appeals from United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids [Unpublished] Before WOLLMAN, LOKEN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.
These are consolidated direct criminal appeals from judgments entered by the district court. Stephen Dorsey and Kenneth Williams each pled guilty to distributing cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a school, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), and 860(a), and each was sentenced by the district court at the bottom of his calculated Guidelines range. Their attorneys have moved for leave to withdraw, and have filed briefs under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), challenging the substantive reasonableness of the respective sentences. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.
The Honorable Linda R. Reade, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. --------
This court concludes that the district court did not impose a substantively unreasonable sentence in either case. See United States v. David, 682 F.3d 1074, 1076-77 (8th Cir. 2012) (discussing appellate review of sentencing decisions); see also United States v. Cook, 698 F.3d 667, 670 (8th Cir. 2012) (on appeal, applying presumption of reasonableness to within-Guidelines-range sentence). An independent review of both records reveals no nonfrivolous issues. See Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988)
The judgments in both cases are affirmed. Counsels' motions to withdraw are granted.