United States v. Mark Walker

PER CURIAM. Mark Walker (Walker) pled guilty to conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine mixture, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. He initially filed a written objection to the presentence report’s (PSR) recommendation that he be held responsible for 15 kilograms or more of methamphetamine mixture. However, Walker withdrew this objection in open court at the sentencing hearing. The district court 1 sentenced him to 235 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. On appeal, Walker argues that his sentence is unreasonable under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), and 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), because the district court later held two of his co-conspirators, who contested their drug quantities at sentencing, responsible for more than 500 grams but less than 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine mixture. We conclude, by withdrawing his drug-quantity objection below, Walker waived this argument, precluding appellate review. See United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725, 733-34, 113 S.Ct. 1770, 123 L.Ed.2d 508 (1993) (waiver is intentional relinquishment or abandonment of known right, and it precludes appellate review even for plain error); United States v. Fortner, 180 Fed.Appx. 633 (8th Cir. 2006) (per curiam) (unpublished) (holding *555 defendant waived her right to appeal sentencing issues when she did not object to the PSR quantity calculation); United States v. Thompson, 289 F.3d 524, 526-27 (8th Cir.2002) (where defendant’s lawyer raised but then withdrew objection, defendant waived issue under Olano and was precluded from arguing it on appeal). Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court. Footnotes [1] The Honorable Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri.