United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                    No. 04-3275
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United States of America,                *
                                         *
             Appellee,                   *
                                         * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                 * District Court for the
                                         * Southern District of Iowa.
Ernest Alphonzo Wilcox,                  *
                                         * [UNPUBLISHED]
             Appellant.                  *
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                              Submitted: October 6, 2005
                                 Filed: October 27, 2005
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Before ARNOLD, FAGG, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Ernest Alphonzo Wilcox appeals the sentence the district court1 imposed
following his guilty plea to bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). On
appeal, Wilcox argues that the district court erred in not granting him a downward
departure under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.12 (coercion and duress), and in not treating two
March 8, 1988 state second-degree theft convictions, for which Wilcox received
concurrent 5-year prison terms, as a single prior conviction for purposes of calculating
his criminal history score.

      1
        The Honorable Harold D. Vietor, United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Iowa.
      We conclude that the district court’s discretionary decision to deny Wilcox’s
downward-departure request is unreviewable, see United States v. Mohr, 

, 902 (8th Cir. 2005), and that the district court did not err in concluding that
Wilcox’s two theft convictions were not related, see U.S.S.G. § 4A1.2(a)(2),
comment. (n.3); United States v. Newsome, 

, 998-99 (8th Cir. 2005)
(standard of review), petition for cert. filed, (U.S. Sept. 6, 2005) (No. 05-6240).

      Accordingly, we affirm.
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