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Parties Involved:
Craig Pipps
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-40317

Conference Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

CRAIG PIPPS, also known as Lone Wolf,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Eastern District of Texas

USDC No. 1:12-CR-119-5

Before REAVLEY, SMITH, and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

The attorney appointed to represent Craig Pipps has moved for leave to 

withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v. California, 386 

U.S. 738 (1967), and United States v. Flores, 632 F.3d 229 (5th Cir. 2011).

Pipps has filed a response. The record is not sufficiently developed to allow us 

to make a fair evaluation of Pipps’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; 

we therefore decline to consider the claim without prejudice to collateral 

* 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

April 21, 2015

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

 

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review. See United States v. Isgar, 739 F.3d 829, 841 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 

135 S. Ct. 123 (2014).

We have reviewed counsel’s brief and the relevant portions of the record 

reflected therein, as well as Pipps’s response. We concur with counsel’s 

assessment that the appeal presents no nonfrivolous issue for appellate review. 

Accordingly, the motion for leave to withdraw is GRANTED, counsel is excused 

from further responsibilities herein, and the APPEAL IS DISMISSED. See

5TH CIR. R. 42.2. Pipps’s request to relieve counsel and to proceed pro se is 

DENIED as untimely. See United States v. Wagner, 158 F.3d 901, 902-03 (5th 

Cir. 1998).

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