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091907P.pdf   03/04/2010  United States  v.  John Williams
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1907
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Melloy and Beam, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Sentencing. Defendant's claims of procedural error at
   sentencing are rejected as the district court did not treat the advisory
   guidelines as mandatory and considered the 3553(a) factors in setting
   sentence; in setting defendant's sentence, the district court was not
   permitted to give any weight to the severity of the statutory minimum
   sentences defendant faced on his firearm counts, and the district court
   did not err in rejecting defendant's request to do so; sentence was not
   unreasonable.