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Date Created: 2011-04-19 18:20:29+00
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Case: 10-40540 Document: 00511450605 Page: 1 Date Filed: 04/19/2011

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                    Fifth Circuit

                                                 FILED
                                                                            April 19, 2011
                                     No. 10-40540
                                  Conference Calendar                       Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                 Clerk

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                   Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

RAUL RODRIGUEZ CERVANTES,

                                                   Defendant-Appellant

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Southern District of Texas
                              USDC No. 5:10-CR-246-1

Before JOLLY, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
       The Federal Public Defender appointed to represent Raul Rodriguez
Cervantes has moved for leave to withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance
with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and United States v. Flores, 632
F.3d 229 (5th Cir. 2011). Rodriguez Cervantes has filed a response. The record
is insufficiently developed to allow consideration at this time of Rodriguez
Cervantes’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; such a claim generally
“cannot be resolved on direct appeal when the claim has not been raised before

       *
         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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .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.
    Case: 10-40540 Document: 00511450605 Page: 2 Date Filed: 04/19/2011

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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).        We have reviewed
counsel’s brief and the relevant portions of the record reflected therein, as well
as Rodriguez Cervantes’s response. We concur with counsel’s assessment that
the appeal presents no nonfrivolous issue for appellate review. Accordingly, the
motion for leave to withdraw is GRANTED, counsel is excused from further
responsibilities herein, and the APPEAL IS DISMISSED. See 5 TH C IR. R. 42.2.

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