United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                    No. 01-3957
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United States of America,             *
                                      *
           Appellee,                  * Appeal from the United States
                                      * District Court for the
      v.                              * District of Minnesota.
                                      *
James Daniel Dechon Ellis, also known * [UNPUBLISHED]
as J.D.,                              *
                                      *
           Appellant.                 *
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                          Submitted: May 20, 2002
                              Filed: June 7, 2002
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Before McMILLIAN, BOWMAN, and BYE, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      James Ellis pleaded guilty to bank fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1344 and
2. The district court,1 after denying Ellis a 2-level acceptance-of-responsibility
reduction, sentenced him to 38 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release.
On appeal, Ellis argues that the district court erred in denying him the acceptance-of-
responsibility reduction.



      1
      The Honorable David S. Doty, United States District Judge for the District of
Minnesota.
       The district court did not clearly err in denying the reduction. See United
States v. Perez, 

, 739 (8th Cir. 2001) (standard of review), cert. denied,

(2002). The evidence at sentencing showed that after his arrest Ellis
absconded from a halfway house, attempted to break into his former girlfriend’s
residence, made threatening phone calls to her from jail, and received an obstruction-
of-justice enhancement. See U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1, comment. (n.4); United States v.
Martinez, 

, 1048 (8th Cir. 2000) (per curiam); United States v. Ngo,

, 1233 (8th Cir. 1997).

      Accordingly, we affirm.

      A true copy.

             Attest:

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




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