Opinion ID: 769603
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Gant's Appeal

Text: 42 Gant and a codefendant were drug couriers. They traveled from Los Angeles to Memphis in a car loaded with 24.13 kilograms of cocaine and then turned the car over to another codefendant. Gant entered a guilty plea, waiving her right to appeal her sentence but retaining her right to appeal the district court's denial of the appellants' motion to suppress the wiretap evidence. Gant's court-appointed appellate attorney has filed an Anders brief and now moves to withdraw. Gant has not filed a pro se supplemental brief. 43 In accordance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), Gant's attorney compiled excerpts of the record and briefed all possible legal issues so that we might independently assess Gant's appeal. Gant's counsel identified three possible issues for review: Gant's plea bargain, sentencing, and standing to join her codefendants' motion to suppress the wiretap evidence. If this court finds any of the legal points arguable on their merits . . . it must . . . afford the indigent the assistance of counsel to argue the appeal. Id. at 744. 44 After an independent review of the record, and in view of our resolution of the suppression issue, we conclude there are no unresolved, nonfrivolous issues in Gant's appeal. See Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 83 (1988) (requiring an independent review of the record). Gant was competent to enter a guilty plea, and she did so knowingly and voluntarily. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 11. Even assuming that the district court abused its discretion by denying Gant standing to participate in the motion to suppress the wiretap evidence, we have affirmed the district court's denial of that motion on the merits.