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Parties Involved:
Ericson Lamar Snow
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

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No. 15-12120

Non-Argument Calendar

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D.C. Docket No. 4:14-cr-00380-AKK-JEO-2

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

 Plaintiff - Appellee,

versus

ERICSON LAMAR SNOW, 

 Defendant - Appellant.

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Appeal from the United States District Court

for the Northern District of Alabama

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(February 12, 2016)

Before MARTIN, JILL PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM: 

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P. Russell Steen, appointed counsel for Ericson Snow in this direct criminal 

appeal, has moved to withdraw from further representation of Snow and prepared a 

brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Our independent 

review of the record reveals that counsel’s assessment of the relative merit of the 

appeal is correct. Because independent examination of the entire record reveals no 

arguable issues of merit, counsel’s motion to withdraw is GRANTED, and Snow’s 

convictions and sentences are AFFIRMED.

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 1 We acknowledge that Snow expressed dissatisfaction with counsel’s performance 

leading up to his guilty plea and sentencing and that he might wish to argue that counsel was 

ineffective in that respect. Such claims, however, generally “are not considered for the first time 

on direct appeal,” but rather are best reserved for postconviction proceedings. United States v. 

Tyndale, 209 F.3d 1292, 1294 (11th Cir. 2000); see Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500, 504-

05 (2003). 

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