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Case: 05-40774     Document: 00511206680          Page: 1    Date Filed: 08/17/2010

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

                                                 FILED
                                                                           August 17, 2010
                                     No. 05-40774
                                  Conference Calendar                       Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                 Clerk

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                   Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

GREGORY D LEWIS,

                                                   Defendant-Appellant

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Eastern District of Texas
                              USDC No. 5:04-CR-19-1

Before DAVIS, SMITH, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
        The Federal Public Defender appointed to represent Gregory D. Lewis has
moved for leave to withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v.
California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Lewis has filed a response. To the extent that
Lewis has raised a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the record is
insufficiently developed to allow consideration at this time of his claim; 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

       *
         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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .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.
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                                No. 05-40774

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, counsel’s brief, and Lewis’s response discloses
no nonfrivolous issue for appeal. Accordingly, counsel’s 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. Lewis’s motion to
substitute counsel is DENIED.

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