United States v. Agee

401 F. App'x 123

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Decided: November 8, 2010
• Docket: No. 10-2020
• Status: Published

Opinion

ORDER

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”.

Agee’s second motion, just like his first, sought a sentence reduction under 18 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 eonclusory 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.