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Parties Involved:
Jorge Armando Cavazos
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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.

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 09-50056

Conference Calendar

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

JORGE ARMANDO CAVAZOS, also known as Jorge Armando CavazosAlmanza,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Western District of Texas

USDC No. 4:08-CR-219-ALL

Before GARZA, DENNIS, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

The attorney appointed to represent Jorge Armando Cavazos has moved

for leave to withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v.

California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Cavazos has filed a response. The record is

insufficiently developed to allow consideration at this time of Cavazos’s claim of

ineffective assistance of appellate counsel; such a claim generally “cannot be

resolved on direct appeal when [it] has not been raised before the district court

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

F I L E D

February 12, 2010

Charles R. Fulbruge III

Clerk

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since no opportunity existed to develop the record on the merits of the

allegations.” United States v. Cantwell, 470 F.3d 1087, 1091 (5th Cir. 2006)

(internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Our independent review of the

record, counsel’s brief, and Cavazos’s response discloses no nonfrivolous issue for

appeal. 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. 

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