Case Name: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Levi Essau CARDENAS-PENA, also known as Levi Cardenas Pena, also known as Levi Cardenas, also known as Levi Essau Cardenas Pena, also known as Levi Saul Cardenas, also known as Levi S. Cardenas, also known as Levi Cardenas-Pena, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-02-15
Citations: 411 F. App'x 746
Docket Number: No. 09-20758
Parties: UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Levi Essau CARDENAS-PENA, also known as Levi Cardenas Pena, also known as Levi Cardenas, also known as Levi Essau Cardenas Pena, also known as Levi Saul Cardenas, also known as Levi S. Cardenas, also known as Levi Cardenas-Pena, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Before HIGGINBOTHAM, GARZA, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 411
Pages: 746–747

Head Matter:
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Levi Essau CARDENAS-PENA, also known as Levi Cardenas Pena, also known as Levi Cardenas, also known as Levi Essau Cardenas Pena, also known as Levi Saul Cardenas, also known as Levi S. Cardenas, also known as Levi Cardenas-Pena, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 09-20758
Conference Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Feb. 15, 2011.
James Lee Turner, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Thomas Donald Moran, Esq., Schneider & McKinney, P.C., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.
Levi Essau Cardenas-Pena, Inez, KY, pro se.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, GARZA, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The attorney appointed to represent Levi Essau Cardenas-Pena has moved for leave to withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967). Cardenas-Pena has not filed a response but suggested in his notice of appeal that he wished to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The record is insufficiently developed to allow consideration at this time of Cardenas-Pena's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; such claims generally "cannot be resolved on direct appeal when [they have] not been raised before the district court 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 and counsel's brief 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.
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.