United States of America v. Sydney Morgan Mittan-Ybarra

United States Court of Appeals
For the Eighth Circuit
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No. 26-1253
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United States of America
lllllllllllllllllllllPlaintiff - Appellee
v.
Sydney Morgan Mittan-Ybarra
lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellant
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Appeal from United States District Court
for the Southern District of Iowa - Eastern
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Submitted: August 3, 2026
Filed: August 6, 2026
[Unpublished]
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Before GRASZ, ERICKSON, and STRAS, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
Sydney Mittan-Ybarra appeals after the district court1 revoked her probation
and sentenced her to 12 months and 1 day in prison and 36 months of supervised
1The Honorable Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, United States District Judge for
the Southern District of Iowa.

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release. Her counsel has moved to withdraw and has filed a brief arguing that the
revocation sentence is substantively unreasonable.
After careful review of the record, we conclude that the sentence was not an
abuse of discretion, as the district court properly considered the relevant 18 U.S.C.
§ 3553(a) factors, see United States v. Keatings, 787 F.3d 1197, 1202 (8th Cir. 2015)
(standard of review), and imposed a sentence below the statutory limit, see United
States v. Tschebaum, 306 F.3d 540, 543-44 (8th Cir. 2002) (upon revocation of
probation, district court begins sentencing process anew and may impose any
sentence within the statutory limits that would have been available at the initial
sentencing); see also 18 U.S.C. § 1623(a) (penalty of not more than 5 years in prison).
Accordingly, we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw and affirm.
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