DocketNumber: 10-2020
Judges: Per Curiam
Filed Date: 11/8/2010
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/17/2021
NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION To be cited only in accordance with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit Chicago, Illinois 60604 Submitted September 15, 2010* Decided November 8, 2010 Before WILLIAM J. BAUER, Circuit Judge JOHN L. COFFEY, Circuit Judge DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ] Appeal from the United Plaintiff-Appellee, ] States District Court for ] the Northern District of No. 10-2020 v. ] Illinois, Eastern Division. ] TERRELL AGEE, ] No. 1:99-cr-00397-7 Defendant-Appellant. ] ] Wayne R. Andersen, Judge. O R D E R There is only one question we need to resolve in this appeal. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it denied Terrell Agee’s second motion to reduce sentence? The answer is an unqualified “No”. *This appeal is successive to Appeal 04‐2045 and has been submitted to this panel under Operating Procedure 6(b). After examining the briefs and record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. The appeal, therefore, is submitted on the briefs and record. No. 10‐2020 Page 2 Agee’s second motion, just like his first, sought a sentence reduction under18 U.S.C. § 3582
(c)(2) based on the Sentencing Commission’s amended Sentencing Guideline for crack cocaine. In its order denying Agee’s first motion, the district court pointed out that “Agee was re‐sentenced [on June 5, 2008] using the amended statute” and therefore “is not entitled to a reduction in sentence”. See Order of July 29, 2009. We dismissed Agee’s appeal of this order because it was untimely. See Appeal No. 09‐3203. The district court thought Agee’s second motion, filed within weeks of this court’s dismissal of Appeal No. 09‐3203 as untimely, was a belated attempt to seek review of both his sentence and the denial of his first motion to reduce sentence. Further, the court again pointed out that “the revised guidelines [on cocaine base] were already taken into account when determining Agee’s current sentence”. See Order of April 12, 2010. Agee’s brief presents no argument to suggest that either explanation for the denial of his second motion to reduce sentence (the only order under review), let alone both explanations, constituted an abuse of discretion. His conclusory claim that one of the two reasons for denying his motion is “untrue” is insufficient. As such, we can hardly say that the district court abused its discretion in denying Agee’s second motion to reduce sentence. See United States v. Hall,600 F.3d 872
, 875‐76 (7th Cir. 2010); United States v. Young,555 F.3d 611
, 615 (7th Cir. 2009). The order of the district court is AFFIRMED.