United States Court of Appeals
                             FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                    No. 97-3633
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United States of America,                *
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             Appellee,                   *
                                         * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                 * District Court for the
                                         * Eastern District of Arkansas.
Alexander George,                        *
                                         *      [UNPUBLISHED]
             Appellant.                  *
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                            Submitted: April 6, 1998
                                Filed: April 15, 1998
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Before McMILLIAN, LOKEN, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

        In November 1996, Alexander George pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud
in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343. The district court1 sentenced him to thirteen months
in prison and three years supervised release, and ordered restitution in the amount of
$20,792.09. When George later withdrew his attempt to withdraw his guilty plea, the
district court afforded him a one-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility, and
resentenced him to 12 months in prison. George appeals, and we affirm.



      1
        The HONORABLE STEPHEN M. REASONER, Chief Judge, United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
        Relying on United States v. Atlas, 

, 451-52 (8th Cir. 1996), George
argues that the district court erred in affording him only a one-level acceptance-of-
responsibility reduction. Because he failed to raise this issue in the district court, we
review his sentence for plain error. We conclude there was no plain error because
George&s substantial rights were not affected by the one-level reduction. See United
States v. Montanye, 

, 192 (8th Cir. 1993) (en banc) (plain error requires
showing that the error affected substantial rights). Had the district court given him a
two-level reduction, George&s guidelines sentencing range would have been reduced
from 10-16 months to 8-14 months. A review of the two sentencing proceedings
satisfies us that this change would not have affected his sentence.

      Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court.

      A true copy.

             Attest:

                     CLERK, U. S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.




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