United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                   No. 02-1018
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United States of America,               *
                                        *
            Appellee,                   *
                                        * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                * District Court for the Western
                                        * District of Missouri.
Francisco Gonzalez-Renteria,            *     [UNPUBLISHED]
                                        *
            Appellant.                  *
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                         Submitted: June 5, 2002
                             Filed: June 10, 2002
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Before MURPHY, BYE, and RILEY, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Francisco Gonzalez-Renteria pleaded guilty to re-entering the United States
illegally after deportation, following his conviction for an aggravated felony, in
violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2). Gonzalez-Renteria moved for a downward
departure based on his agreement to waive a hearing and to consent to administrative
deportation. The district court1 denied the motion and sentenced him to 46 months
imprisonment and 3 years supervised release.


      1
      The Honorable Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., United States District Judge for the
Western District of Missouri.
       On appeal Gonzalez-Renteria’s counsel has moved to withdraw and filed a
brief under Anders v. California, 

(1967), arguing that the district court
erred in denying the downward-departure motion. We may not review a district
court’s denial of a downward-departure motion where--as here--there is no evidence
that the court did not understand its authority to depart, or that the court was
motivated by an unconstitutional reason. See United States v. Hernandez-Reyes, 

, 801-02 (8th Cir. 1997).

      Having found no nonfrivolous issues in our independent review of the record,
see Penson v. Ohio, 

, 80 (1988), we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw,
and we affirm.

      A true copy.

             Attest:

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




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