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Parties Involved:
Ramiro Cordova
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 18-40883

Summary Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

RAMIRO CORDOVA,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Southern District of Texas

USDC No. 7:15-CR-1335-1

Before JOLLY, JONES, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Ramiro Cordova appeals his convictions for conspiring to possess, and 

possessing, with intent to distribute cocaine for which he was sentenced to 240 

months of imprisonment. We will not consider Cordova’s claims that his trial 

counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to investigate, file, and 

litigate a pretrial Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3)(C) motion to 

suppress; the record is not sufficiently developed to evaluate the merits of these 

* Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not 

be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH 

CIR. R. 47.5.4.

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

FILED

February 10, 2020

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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claims, and they are denied without prejudice to collateral review. See United 

States v. Isgar, 739 F.3d 829, 841 (5th Cir. 2014).

Cordova has forfeited his stand-alone Fourth Amendment claim by 

raising it for the first time in his reply. See United States v. Bowen, 818 F.3d 

179, 192 n.8 (5th Cir. 2016). Regardless, as Cordova concedes, he is required 

to show plain error because he failed to file a Rule 12(b)(3)(C) motion to 

suppress in the district court. See United States v. Vasquez, 899 F.3d 363, 372 

(5th Cir. 2018), cert. denied, 139 S. Ct. 1543 (2019). Because Cordova does not 

argue that any alleged error affected his substantial rights or the fairness, 

integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings, his claim necessarily 

fails. See Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 135 (2009). 

AFFIRMED.

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