United States of America v. Antonio Deshawn Thomas

United States Court of Appeals
For the Eighth Circuit
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No. 16-4524
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United States of America
lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee
v.
Antonio Deshawn Thomas
lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant
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Appeal from United States District Court
for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport
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Submitted: February 6, 2018
Filed: February 14, 2018
[Unpublished]
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Before BENTON, MURPHY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
Antonio Thomas directly appeals the within-Guidelines-range sentence the
district court imposed after he pled guilty to drug and firearm offenses. His counsel1
The Honorable John A. Jarvey, Chief Judge, United States District Court for1
the Southern District of Iowa.

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has moved for leave to withdraw, and has filed a brief under Anders v. California,
386 U.S. 738 (1967), asserting that an error under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure
11(b)(1)(B) occurred during the change-of-plea hearing, and that Thomas’s sentence
was substantively unreasonable.
Upon careful review, we conclude that no plain error occurred, see United
States v. Dominguez Benitez, 542 U.S. 74, 76 (2004) (plain-error standard applies
where Rule 11 omission was not preserved by timely objection; defendant must show
that, but for such omission, he would not have entered plea); and that Thomas’s
sentence is not substantively unreasonable, see United States v. Feemster, 572 F.3d
455, 461-62 (8th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (reviewing sentence under deferential
abuse-of-discretion standard; discussing substantive reasonableness); see also United
States v. Callaway, 762 F.3d 754, 760 (8th Cir. 2014) (on appeal,
within-Guidelines-range sentence is presumed reasonable). In addition, we have
independently reviewed the record under Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75 (1988), and
have found no non-frivolous issues for appeal. Accordingly, we grant counsel’s
motion to withdraw and affirm.
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