Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lydia I. CLADEK, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-03-31
Citations: 561 F. App'x 837
Docket Number: No. 13-13728
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lydia I. CLADEK, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before PRYOR, MARTIN, and FAY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 561
Pages: 837–838

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lydia I. CLADEK, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 13-13728
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
March 31, 2014.
Susan Hollis Rothstein-Youakim, Arthur Lee Bentley, III, I. Randall Gold, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tampa, FL, Bonnie Ames Glober, Jay Carl Taylor, Mac D. Heavener, III, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jacksonville, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Rosemary Cakmis, Donna Lee Elm, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Orlando, FL, Maurice C. Grant, II, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Jacksonville, FL, Lydia I. Cladek, FCI Coleman Medium, Coleman, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before PRYOR, MARTIN, and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Lydia Cladek appeals the district court's denial of her pro se Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 33 motion for a new trial. Maurice Grant, II, appointed counsel for Cladek, has moved to withdraw from further representation of the appellant in this appeal and filed a brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967). Although Cladek argued in her Rule 33 motion and in response to Grant's Anders motion that counsel was ineffective, the record in this case is insufficient to review counsel's effectiveness. See United States v. Franklin, 694 F.3d 1, 8-9 (11th Cir.2012). Claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should usually be raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion. United States v. Curbelo, 726 F.3d 1260, 1267 (11th Cir.2013).
Because our independent examination of the record reveals no arguable issues of merit, counsel's motion to withdraw is GRANTED, and the denial of Cladek's Rule 33 motion for a new trial is AFFIRMED. In addition, Cladek's pro se request for new counsel in this appeal is DENIED as moot, and Cladek's various other requests in this appeal for relief, also filed pro se, are DENIED.